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Sălaj County Council
Energy and resources www.cjsj.ro

are also white areas of the latter, the main Internet providers nite, brown coal, hydrocarbons, coal shale, gypsum, alabas-
being: Vodafone, Orange, Telekom, RCS-RDS, UPC, NextGen. ter, diorite (natural stone for outdoor paving, aggregates for
Sălaj has a wide range of soil and subsoil resources with rockfill and civil and road construction), gneiss, mica, lime-
potential for capitalizing, the water resources being repre- stone, clay, caolinous sand, siliceous sand, quartz sand, kaolin,
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sented by surface and underground waters, which provide volcanic tuff and river aggregates .
both water supply to the population and technological water
for industry or for agriculture. From the perspective of water
resources, the county is situated between Someş-Tisa Hydro-
graphic Basin (88,5 % of the territory) and Crişuri Hydgraphic
Basin (11,5 %).

A significant area of 106 336 ha, which represents 27,5 % of
the total area of the county, is occupied by forests, of which
over 90 % is deciduous forest (common beech, common oak,
Sălaj County has a special potential in thermo-mineral wa- seasille, hornbeam, hungarian oak, turkey oak, ash, lime trees,
wych elm, sycamore etc.). In the county there are also 15 pro-
ters, used for therapeutic purposes, especially bicarbonate
tected areas of national interest (484 ha) and 6 special areas of
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waters with a temperature of 23 °C - 42 °C and balneothera-
conservation of community interest.
peutic, sulfate and sulphurous mineral waters.
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At Sălaj County there are 241 112 ha of agricultural land ,
These can be used in the development of spa tourism and can
which represents 62,35 % of its administrative area, most of
be found in the localities: Bizuşa Băi, Jibou, Şimleu Silvaniei,
them being used as arable land (49,76 % of the total), pastures
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Bobota, Boghiş, Meseşenii de Sus and Zalnoc .
and meadows (47,01 %), vineyards and orchards (3,23 %).
Natural raw material resources are varied and include: lig-
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