Gurasada (, ) is a commune in

Hunedoara County Hunedoara County () is a county (''județ'') of Romania, in Transylvania, with its capital city at Deva, Romania, Deva. The county is part of the Danube–Criș–Mureș–Tisa Euroregion. Name In Hungarian language, Hungarian, it is known as , ...

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. It is composed of eleven villages: Boiu de Jos (''Alsóboj''), Boiu de Sus (''Felsőboj''), Cărmăzănești (''Karmazinesd''), Câmpuri de Sus (''Kimpur''), Câmpuri-Surduc (''Kimpényszurduk''), Dănulești (''Danulesd''), Gothatea (''Gothátya''), Gurasada, Runcșor (''Runksor''), Ulieș (''Ullyes'') and Vica (''Vika''). The commune is located on the middle course of the river Mureș, in the northwestern part of the county, at a distance of from county seat,

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. This region is situated at the junction of the

and

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historical provinces. Its neighbours are the communes of

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Burjuc Burjuc () is a commune in Hunedoara County, Romania. It is composed of six villages: Brădățel (''Bradacel''), Burjuc, Glodghilești (''Glodgilesd''), Petrești (''Petresd''), Tătărăști (''Tataresd''), and Tisa (''Tisza''). The commune lies ...

. Gurasada covers an area of , representing 1.2% of the surface of Hunedoara County. Although its surface is not very large, an important variety of rocks constituents can be found. The variety of the landform is one of the most interesting attraction of this territory. The lowest altitude is situated next to the Mureș River, above sea level. The river

Gurasada Gurasada (, ) is a commune in Hunedoara County, Transylvania, Romania. It is composed of eleven villages: Boiu de Jos (''Alsóboj''), Boiu de Sus (''Felsőboj''), Cărmăzănești (''Karmazinesd''), Câmpuri de Sus (''Kimpur''), Câmpuri-Surduc ...

flows through Dănulești, Cărmăzănești, and Gurasada villages, discharging into the Mureș in Gothatea village. Gurasada is known for its churches: The church from Gurasada, the main village, is an Orthodox one, and the painting from inside the bell-tower is dated in 1765, in the 18th century, when the church was painted again. This church is situated on the main road between Deva and Arad. There are also old churches in some villages of Gurasada: the old church from Dănulești, made of wood, the old church from Carmazănești, the church from Gothatea, made of wood. In communal area there is a natural reservation with horned vipers. There is a cavern in Boiu with a number of 27 natural cavities explored between 1976 and 1978. A park with very rare tree species:

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s, Canadian pine, shrubs and bushes, a

bamboo Bamboos are a diverse group of mostly evergreen perennial plant, perennial flowering plants making up the subfamily (biology), subfamily Bambusoideae of the grass family Poaceae. Giant bamboos are the largest members of the grass family, in th ...

plantation and other species, 175–200 years old oak trees. In this area there are two important quarries for exploitation of

chalk Chalk is a soft, white, porous, sedimentary carbonate rock. It is a form of limestone composed of the mineral calcite and originally formed deep under the sea by the compression of microscopic plankton that had settled to the sea floor. Ch ...

stone.

Natives

* (1888 – 1962), historian and politician, member of the Romanian Academy

References

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