Hello to all,
First I would like to thank all the members who participated in this excursion in Sardinia, for me personally it was a week full of experiences both in terms of human relationships (even though all participants with the language problem, they did so I understood, to be able to exchange information on the various excursions), I have also been able to observe their research techniques and photographic techniques, then once back at base camp each settled their samples collected by sharing with all of their daily experience. I'll start to explain some aspects from the point of view of nature Basin Cuga. First, a brief presentation, and then follow the images of various views, views, views of the basin, to follow there will be images of the fauna present in the territory.
The lake was built for irrigation of the plain of Nura. And 'powered by canals Seredda, San Leonardo and Cuga. It has a capacity of about 30 million cubic meters and an area of ​​3.1 square kilometers, which corresponds to an average depth of 10 meters. The basin has an area of ​​58 square km and is insufficient to lead to filling the lake through underground pipes Cuga the lake was therefore linked to Lake Temo, the City of Monteleone Roccadoria.
The spare time is about 1 year. The analysis of water quality shows a situation highly eutrophic with high density of algae, belonging mainly to the genera and Cyanophyceae Anabaena and Microcystis, so that the lake is not suitable for drinking it it for bathing.
The area is however a nice destination for a walk also to identify some species of birds and nest on the shores of the lake. There are some roads that connect you to the scenic sites of the viewer to walk around the lake and along part of the edge. Besides the cultivated artichoke, almond trees, olive trees and vines among the rushes, reeds and tamarisk you can see the Great Crested Grebe (Podiceps cristatus), a species in decline throughout the island, the little grebe (Podices ruficollis), the Germano real (Anas platyrhynchos), the coot (Fulica atra), the Great Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo). In the lake there is also the largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides).
Trivia:
Where now stands the Lake Cuga a village was called Thuca, who died in the fifteenth century. The village church, dedicated to Saint Leonard de sa Biddazza however, was intact and frequented by the faithful, therefore, in 1975 before the reservoir of the reservoir to prevent the submergence did remove the stone by stone and then rebuilt not far but security against flooding . Different fate has befallen the Nuraghe instead Peppe Gallu that present in the bed of the lake was flooded and is visible only in the summer and when the lake is dry. (Source:
http://www.ssardinia.com)
