Sardinia is, for greatness, the second island of the Mediterranean: measure 24.089 km2, is inclusive among the 38° 51' 52 '' and the 41° 15' 42 '' of latitude North and among the 8° 8' and 9° 50' of East longitude. Sets to the center of the western

Mediterranean, it is distant from Corsica as soon as 12 kms, 120 Kms. from Tuscany, 185 Kms. coasts give of North-Africa, you/he/she is surrounded by very deep sea backdrops and it has a coastal development of 1.849 Kms. The coasts are generally tall and rocky, they race rectilinear for kilometers, but they are often articulated and they abort in promontories, with ample and deep inlets edged from islets. In proximity of the low and plain coasts they meet him, in the hinterland, ponds, swamps, expanses of dunes. For long lines, northwestern and Northeast the coastal line becomes impervious and jagged.Being an ancient earth, with rocks that go up again ago to the Paleozoic Antico(300 million of years), the island doesn't possess mountainous reliefs of great heights because of long processes of erosion. The rocky highlands of granite predominate, schist, trachite, basalt (said "jars" or "gollei"), sandstone, dolomie-limestones (said "tonneri" or "heels") of inclusive height between the 300 and the 1.000 meters.Among the massive mountainous they detach that of the Gennargentu - in the center of the Island - with his/her taller top (1.834 ms.), the Limbara Mountain (1.362 ms.) to North and the Rasu Mountain, culminating party of the so-called one "chain of the Marghine", that transversally lengthens for 40 Kms toward North. To them articulated and deep subsidences are accompanied where they often flow courses of water. To exception of the Campidano, great lowland that from the gulf of Cagliari it goes up again for around 100 kilometers up to the gulf of Oristano, the lowlands they are few and of modest extender.

Of the native great forests of lecci, oaks, sprite of intense exploitation since the most ancient times - ample edges that interest around 1/6 some overall surface for around 475.000 hectares remain today. Particularly remarkable it is the forest of Gutturu Mannu, in the South, the greatest of the Mediterranean. Three are the most greater rivers - for length and course of water: the Flumendosa, that flows in the southern party of the Oriental coast, the Tirso that flows in the gulf of Oristano and the Coghinas, that it flows to North in the gulf of the Asinara. Another important river is the I Fear that it flows to Bosa and it is the only navigable river of Sardinia. The waters of the Sardinian rivers are been bridled to form artificial lakes and dikes.

Of remarkable interest, also from the naturalistic-environmental viewpoint, the waters that from the subsoil riaffiorano in rising carsiche to the open one and in cave.The termo-mineral sources are different that gush out from the fractures of the ground owed to the ancient processes of volcanism of the Tertiary and Quaternary one. Waters are exploited to therapeutic purpose and are commercialized as drink.
The climate of the island is generally mild, influenced by masses of air coming from the Atlantic, from Africa and from the arctic one.
The time is serene: within the year, around 300 days they are of sun and the pluvius remainders, with a greater concentration of the raininess in the winter and autumn season and some sudden downpour in the spring season. The midrange temperature of July is of 23.9° while that of January is of 11.1°; the rate of damp wanders around 70% (annual average).
The island is very ventilated. The mistral, dominant wind of North West, is fresh and prickly in winter, while in summer mitigates the warm one making the driest and breathable air. Less frequent the sirocco - which the southern coast is exposed - and the winds of east and northeastern, that blow along the oriental coast.

 

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