The Tisza

The the Tisza ( the Tisza , Stoked , in Ukrainian Serbe and : Тиса ) is a river of Central Europe, affluent of the the Danube. It is born in Ukraine from the junction from the the white Tisza and the the black Tisza , both exits of the solid mass of the Carpates. It traces the border between the Ukraine and the Romania, crosses all the Hungary and joined the the Danube in Serbia-and-Montenegro. Its area catchment, particularly vast, relates to also the Slovakia.

The Tisza sprinkles Sighetu Marmaţiei, Bocicoiu Mare, Rachiw, Welykyj Bytschkiw, Tschop, Tokaj, Szolnok, Szeged.

Its principal affluent is the Mureş (or in Hungarian: Maros ), the other affluents are the Körös, the Zagyva, the Sajó, the Bodrog, the Crasna and the Someş.

The Hungarian course of the Tisza east far from sloping, but several meanders were rectified. The flow is irregular: one can generally cross the river to foot at the end of the summer but the cast iron of the Neige S in Carpates regularly gives risings of 2000 to 3000 m ³ /s followed Inondation S.

A stopping created a reserve of 134 km ² in the middle of Hungary, offering to the area Grande Plain (Grand Alföld) a tourist vocation in becoming.

The ecological catastrophe of 2000

The January 30th 2000, a dam yields in a basin of a gold exploitation of Baia Mare, in the north of Romania, letting escape 100.000 m from muddy water. The strong concentration in Cyanure of this pollution involves the quasi total destruction of fauna and the watery flora in the Someş then in the Tisza. The effects of this discharge were sensitive until in Black Sea. Hungary carried felt sorry for against the company Australia Esmeralda , shareholder with 51% of the company Aurul of Baia Mare.

External bonds

Official report on the ecological catastrophe
File documented on the catastrophe

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