Almaşu Mare

For the village in Bihor County, see Balc, Bihor.

Almaşu Mare
—  Commune  —
Location in Alba County
Almaşu Mare Location in Romania
Coordinates: 47°19′1.2″N 22°31′58.8″E / 47.317°N 22.533°E / 47.317; 22.533
Country	Romania
County	Alba County
Population (2002)[1]
– Total	1,690
Time zone	EET (UTC+2)
– Summer (DST)	EEST (UTC+3)

Almaşu Mare (German: Groß-Obstdorf; Hungarian: Nagyalmás) is a commune located in Alba county, Romania.

With a population of 1690 according to the 2002 census, the commune is composed of seven villages: Almaşu Mare, Almaşu de Mijloc, Brădet (Tannenbach), Cib (Tropfbach), Cheile Cibului (Theyenport), Glod (Kloden) and Nădăştia (Rohrfeld). Its current mayor, as of 2006, is Aron Zaharie. A former mining centre for gold, its income comes now mainly from agricultural and agrotouristical activities.

Almaşu Mare's tourist objectives are the Cibu Gorges, the Glod Gorges, a thermal spring and the Achim Emilian ethnographical museum.

References

1. ^ (Romanian) "Almaşu Mare", at the Erdélyi Magyar Adatbank's Recensământ 2002; Retrieved on September 4, 2009

Coordinates: 47°19′01″N 22°31′59″E / 47.317°N 22.533°E / 47.317; 22.533