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Csongrád-Csanád County has the sunniest countryside in lakes, intermittent wild waters, saline pastures, and forest
Hungary, the deepest point of Hungary is located here, and patches among the agricultural cultures, and these provide
the Tisza, our river, considered to be the most Hungarian breeding and migratory places for particularly rare birds.

river, leaves our country here. The “blooming of the Tisza” is Bokros-puszta (grassland) is significant from an ornithologi-
connected to this river, which means the “wedding dance” of cal point of view. About 117 protected bird species, of which

the largest European mayfly (Palingenia longicauda). While 26 are highly protected, are living here.
the blooming of the Tisza is an extremely spectacular event, Th e fi rst buffalo reserve was opened in the outskirts of Móra-

it also has important ecological significance. Our nature pro- halom, in the Southern Great Plain region in 2008. Th anks

tection areas of national significance are the Landscape Pro- to the programme, the ecological balance of the Hungarian
tection Area of Mártély, the Landscape Protection Area of Nagyszéksós Lake and the Romanian Maros (Mures) fl ood-
Pusztaszer, and the Moorland Nature Protection Area of plain has signifi cantly improved.

Ásott halom. Th e latter’s important plants include, among The sandy beach of the Körös estuary, known as a recreational
others, the orchids, the Iris spuria and the Siberian iris, the area, is the most beautiful riverside beach in the whole coun-
marsh grass of Parnassus, the marsh gentian and the marsh try.
gladiolus. In addition to the special plants, there are saline

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