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    STUDIA GEOGRAPHIA - Issue no. 2 / 2010  
         
  Article:   THE HYDROGRAPHICAL RESOURCES OF LĂPUŞ LAND – THE ROLE IN THE INDIVIDUALIZATION OF THE SYSTEM OF SETTLEMENTS AND SPECIFIC MODALITIES OF THEIR CAPITALIZATION.

Authors:  ŞT. DEZSI.
 
       
         
  Abstract:  The Hydrographical Resources of Lăpuş Land – the Role in the Individualization of the System of Settlements and Specific Modalities of their Capitalization. Despite the limits induced by the restrictive or catastrophic side of the manifestations of some hydrological phenomena, like excessive phreatic humidity, torrential rains, or floods, especially within the central-depression area, water resources in Lăpuş Land have become and are considered rather attractive than restrictive factors for the establishment of human settlements and activities, because they have decisively influenced them both from the location perspective and their structure and functionality. Due to the presence of water resources and the facilities they provide, there is an obviously tight relationship of interdependence between the network of settlements located in Lăpuş Land and the hydrographical network, the derived aspects from this systemic relation being sequentially highlighted in the first part of this paper. As in most of the Romanian regions nominated as “lands”, whose genesis and evolution are tightly related to the Carpathian territory, a large variety of techniques and installations for the management of hydraulic resources were assimilated, subsequently developed and upgraded by the inhabitants of Lăpuş Land, so that they could use the water for all purposes: potable water for people, animals and household needs, feeding source for domestic use or for commercial purposes (fishing), means of communication and transport, hydraulic force for the functioning of village household equipments, whose evolutionary characteristics has made the object of the second part of the paper.

Keywords: hydrography, system of settlements, traditional and modern management of streams. 

 
         
     
         
         
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