Haralambie Island
Category Park
LOCATION
Dorobantu
917065 Călăraşi
DESCRIPTION
The Haralambie Island is a small island on the Danube river. It is declared to be a protected nature reserve and occupies an area of 44.9 ha.
The reserve is located in a steppe biogeographic region - the floodplain of the Danube. It features freshwater habitats with protected vegetation and fauna species.
Softwood is in a process of regeneration on more than 50% of the island's surface. The upstream part of the island is covered in elm trees.
The Haralambie Island Natural Reserve is one of the most important tourist attractions in Muntenia, a site not to be missed if you are in the vicinity.[1]
The island's flora and vegetation is dominated, to a great extent, by willow species, an example of which is the common white willow (Salix alba), known for its flood resistance. Depending on the altitude and the river level, one can also see a black poplar, white poplar, European white elm or a narrow-leafed ash. In the higher areas you could see the common oak and the grayish oak. The islands' fauna is varied, it hosts more than 1,100 species of animals, of which 770 are invertebrates (35 species of snails). Specialists identified 311 species, including 57 aquatic invertebrate species, 14 bivalves (shells), 110 coleopterans (beetles), 5 amphibians (frogs and tritons), 2 reptiles (snakes), 97 birds and 26 mammals.[2]
HISTORY
The Dorobantu commune is located in the central-southern part of the county, on the left bank of Mostistea, in the area where it flows into the Danube, on the border with the Silistra region, Bulgaria. It is crossed by the DN31 national road, which connects Calarasi with Olteniţa. According to Google Maps Dorobantu starts with Primaverii Street. The commune also features a lake.
Dorobantu (formerly Varasti) is a commune in Calarasi County, Muntenia, Romania, consisting of the villages of Bosneagu, Dorobantu and Varasti.
At the end of the 19th century, the commune was called Varasti and was part of Borcea locality of Ialomiţa County, formed only by a village with 1326 inhabitants, a church and a mixed primary school. The Socec Yearbook of 1925 records the commune in the Ciocăneşti net of the same county, with the villages of Dorobantu and Varasti, with a population of 2691 inhabitants.
In 1950, the commune went under the administration of the Calarasi district in the Ialomita region and then (after 1952) in the Bucharest region and in time changed its name to Dorobantu. In 1968, it returned under the re-established Ialomita County and joined the village of Boşneagu (formerly at Ulmu). In 1981, a regional administrative reorganization led to the transfer of the commune to Calarasi County.
Three sites in the commune of Dorobantu are included in the list of historical monuments in the Calarasi County. The archaeological site of Vărăşti, located on the grind of Gradistea Ulmilor, southeast of the village, in the middle of the former Boian Lake, a Neolithic Neolithic settlement (Boian culture), Eneolithic (Gumelniţa culture) and Iron Age. Other two sites are classified as architectural monuments - the Saint Nicholas church and the Adormirea Maicii Domnului church raised in 1854 in the village of Bosneagu.[3]
The island's flora and vegetation is dominated, to a great extent, by willow species. The islands' fauna is varied, it hosts more than 1,100 species of animals. Softwood is in a process of regeneration on more than 50% of the island's surface. The upstream part of the island is covered in elm trees. The Haralambie Island is a small island on the Danube river. It is declared to be a protected nature reserve. The Haralambie Island Natural Reserve is one of the most important tourist attractions in Muntenia, a site not to be missed if you are in the vicinity.
CLASSIFICATION
Nature reserve
[1] Rezervatia naturala Ostrovul Haralambie
[2] Cele 10 ostroave de pe Dunare, oaze ale naturii
http://www.ecomagazin.ro/cele-10-ostroave-de-pe-dunare-oaze-ale-naturii/
[3] Comuna Dorobanțu, Călărași
https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comuna_Doroban%C8%9Bu,_C%C4%83l%C4%83ra%C8%99i