The saltpan stretches on a strip of land approximately 20 km long, and goes deep inland for nearly 5 km. The total surface is about 45.000 hectares (one hectare = 2.471 acres). The available surface covered by water is about 4.000 hectares. This surface is divided in an evaporation section(3.500 hectares) and a salt one (500 hectares).
Le Terme di Margherita di Savoia
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Lo stabilimento termale utilizza i fanghi e le acque madri contenute nei bacini per l'estrazione del sale.
Historical museum of saltern
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Sagra della seppia 2009
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O'maggio al mare
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The greater flamingo and the salt-pans
The greater flamingos chiefly occur in lagoons and salt or brackish ponds on the coast, wide deltaic areas and slimy expanses.
the Wetlands of Margherita di Savoia
Apulia offers some of the most significant examples of coastal wetlands. Partly of natural and partly of anthropic origin, each of these areas has a more or less elevated salinity.
The natural ones were mostly generated by the action of watercourses which, in the millennia, got isolated from the sea. An example of natural wetland is the ancient Lake Salpi.
The present salt-pans of Margherita di Savoia are a wetland of anthropic origin, but they were built on this very Lake Salpi, once it was reclaimed.
The wetland of the salt-pans of Margherita di Savoia is an area of great interest for the presence of several species of water-birds, both migratory and non-migratory.
In particular, some years ago the beautiful greater flamingos started breeding here, attracting the attention of naturalists.
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