Murgia (plural: Murge) is a sub-region of Apulia (Puglia) in southern Italy, corresponding to a karst topographic plateau of rectangular shape, occupying the central area of the region. Apulia ( Italian: Puglia) is a region in southeastern Italy bordering the Adriatic Sea in the east the Ionian Sea Italy (Italia officially the Italian Republic, (Repubblica Italiana is located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe, and on the two largest Karst topography is a landscape shaped by the dissolution of a layer or layers of soluble Bedrock, usually Carbonate rock such as Limestone In Geology and Earth science, a plateau, also called a high plateau or tableland, is an area of highland, usually consisting The name stems from the Latin murex, meaning "sharp stone". Latin ( lingua Latīna, laˈtiːna is an Italic language, historically spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome.
Geography
The Murge cover a surface of c. 7,000 km², being bordered by the Ofanto river and the Tavoliere delle Puglie on the north, the Adriatic Sea on the northeast, and by the so-called Messapic depression, which separates it from the Salento, on the south. The Ofanto, known in ancient times as Aufidus, from the greek Ophidus, Ωφιδους, meaning snake, is a 170 km River The Tavoliere delle Puglie ( Italian: "Apulian Table" is a plain in northern Apulia, southern Italy, occupying nearly a half of the Salento (Salentu in local dialect is the south-eastern extremity of the Apulia region of Italy. It is divided into Alta Murgia (High Murgia), the higher and rockier area with poorer vegetation, and Bassa Murgia (Lower Murgia), with more fertile land, prevalently cultivated with olives. The Olive ( Olea europaea) is a Species of small Tree in the family Oleaceae, native to the coastal areas of the eastern
The highest elevation of the plateau is the Monte Caccia, at 679 m. The rocks are mostly composed of Cretacic limestone, but karst topography landscapes, such as sinkholes (doline in local terminology), are frequent. The Cretaceous (kriːˈteɪʃəs, usually abbreviated 'K' for its German translation "Kreide" is a geologic period and system, reaching from the end of Limestone is a Sedimentary rock composed largely of the Mineral Calcite ( Calcium carbonate: CaCO3 A sinkhole, also known as a sink, shake hole, swallow hole, swallet, doline or Cenote, is a natural depression The greatest doline are those in Altamura and Molfetta, while also notable are the Castellana's grottoes. Altamura is a town and comune of Apulia, southern Italy. It is located on the Murge plateau in the Province of Bari, 45 km South-West of Bari Molfetta is a city and Comune of the Province of Bari in the southern Italian region of Puglia, on the Adriatic coast at sea-level Civita Castellana is a town in the Province of Viterbo, 65 km north of Rome.
Economy
The Murgian economy has been based for a long time on sheep farming and agriculture, with herding (transumanza) of the flocks from the Abruzzo in winter. See also Transhumance The transumanza is the Italian term for Transhumance, the traditional twice yearly migration of sheep and cows Besides olives, the other main agricultural staples are vegetables and fruits.
Today also the extraction of marble is important, as well as the furniture industry in the comuni of Gravina in Puglia, Altamura, Santeramo in Colle, and the nearby Matera, in Basilicata. Marble is a nonfoliated Metamorphic rock resulting from the Metamorphism of Limestone, composed mostly of Calcite (a crystalline form of Gravina in Puglia (Gravina in Apulia is an Italian Municipality in the Southern Italian Province of Bari, site along a river of the same name Altamura is a town and comune of Apulia, southern Italy. It is located on the Murge plateau in the Province of Bari, 45 km South-West of Bari Santeramo in Colle is a town and Comune in the Province of Bari, Puglia, southern Italy. Basilicata is a region in the south of Italy, bordering on Campania to the west Apulia ( Puglia) to the east Calabria to
Of recent creation is the Alta Murgia National Park. The Parco Nazionale dell'Alta Murgia is a National park in Apulia, southern Italy
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