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Coordinates: 46°48′43″N25°49′08″E / 46.81198°N 25.81894°E
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The Cheile Bicazului - Hășmaș ( Bicaz Gorges - Hăşmaş Mountains ) National Park is located in north-eastern Romania, in the Eastern Carpathians mountain chain. The reservation territory is part of Neamţ and Harghita counties.
Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe. It borders the Black Sea to the southeast, Bulgaria to the south, Ukraine to the north, Hungary to the west, Serbia to the southwest, and Moldova to the east. It has a predominantly temperate-continental climate. With a total area of 238,397 square kilometres (92,046 sq mi), Romania is the 12th largest country and also the 7th most populous member state of the European Union, having almost 20 million inhabitants. Its capital and largest city is Bucharest, and other major urban areas include Cluj-Napoca, Timișoara, Iași, Constanța, Craiova, and Brașov.
Harghita is a county (județ) in the center of Romania, in eastern Transylvania, with the county seat at Miercurea Ciuc.
The park administration is located in Izvorul Mureşului, in Harghita County.
The park's most important geologic features are Cheile Bicazului (Bicaz Gorges), a deep canyon dug by the Bicaz River, Lacu Roşu (the Red Lake) - a natural dam lake, and the Hăşmaş Mountains. [1]
The Bicaz River is a right tributary of the river Bistrița in Romania. It starts at confluence of headwaters Veleșchia and Hăghimaș in the Red Lake. It discharges into the Bistrița in Bicaz. The Romanian name derives from the Hungarian name, which means literally frog-rivulet.
The parks area of 6575 ha is divided into two zones: the special conservation zone (78%), and the protection zone (22%).
The hectare is an SI accepted metric system unit of area equal to a square with 100-metre sides, or 10,000 m2, and is primarily used in the measurement of land. There are 100 hectares in one square kilometre. An acre is about 0.405 hectare and one hectare contains about 2.47 acres.
Natural reserves: The Bicaz Gorges (Neamț district - 1,600 hectares and Harghita district - 2,128 hectares) and Lacu Rosu, Cheile Sugaului (10 hectares) Avenul Licas (5 hectares) the Hasmasul Mare - Piatra Singuratica (the Lonely Stone) and Hasmasul Negru (800 hectares).
Red Lake is a natural dam lake formed following the collapse of a slope due to the earthquake of January 23, 1838 at 18:45, 6.9 magnitude, VIII intensity, at the foot of Hasmasul Mare Mountain, near the Bicaz Gorge, at a distance of 26 km from Gheorgheni, in Harghita County. At the last measurements, made in 1987, its dimensions are: the lake lies on a perimeter of 2,830 m, the area is 114.676 m² and the volume of water that accumulates is 587.503 m³. The lake was formed at an altitude of 983 m, in a depression with a predominant subalpine climate.
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