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Natural environment 


Certainly Pula is very known for his east side fully coasted from the sea. The beaches, of which we speak in an other section of these pages are numerous. Any of these beaches are the most beautiful of all the island, and they surely attract the attention of the tourist.

The territory of Pula understands splendid woods where faunal species lives more and more rare. This natural environment has inserted called Gutturu Mannu in best green lung from South Sardinia that for his characteristic of "isolation" it present peculiarity not encountered in other natural environments. The temperatures in the slant are inclusive always between 15 and 17 °C and only they in the hotter summers reach the 20 °C, the proximity of the sea besides causes an elevated degree of salinity of the air and the vegetation one due adjust for survive in a habitat so particular. It is not rare therefore find in all territory typical vegetations like the fennel of sea and the thorny broom, while it is by now difficulty meet the colonies of lavender that once was accompanied to the dwarf palm by now extinct. Beyond the coast, overcoming the dunes of sand deductions from the couch-grass of beaches, in the more inside territories a more variegated vegetation grows gradually that it composes the splendid bouquet that is the Mediterranean habitat.

From Teulada to Capoterra we can see the damps zones that form numerous lagoons and any foreshortenings of swamps. Chia for example it contains a lagoon that origins a very suggestive landscape. Here they flourish rushes and reed and floating plants beyond other species from Africa that is been perfectly adjust to the climate. In these damps zones is not rare meet bird like the flamingo and other assiduous frequenters that here find food and a place where to stay before take back the migration. In the feet of the slopes there are woods of pines or eucalyptus that however are not aboriginal species but has introduced from the man with the goal of the economic exploitation. In the woods of pine and eucalyptus it is possible spend the day in the middle of the green, using places equipped for the picnic or sojourn in the agricultural tourism houses that often has risen in the heart of the vegetationancient from restructured ancient houses of mountain or farms by now not used. 

Aboriginal species are instead the "cisto", the "plant of lentil" and the asparagus that they flourish to the feet of the mountains. The wood instead dominates in the mountains that in much cases don't overcome the 1000 m of altitude. One of most important it is "Monti Santu" (Saint Mountain) that for the wealth of fauna in past it was private reserve of shoot for the sovereigns from Sardinia. Here the vegetation has characterized from the holm-oak, where you can find any examples secular of this tree. Where the woods of holm-oak don't prevail grow the hawthorn, the oak from cork and the juniper. Talking about the courses of water, they are very rare, those few that they are torrential kind and have scarce course because small precipitations that are verified in the territory of Pula during all year. Despite the shortage of the waters, any species of flowers succeed during short periods to color the shore of the small courses of water.