Community: Calafindeşti
Calafindeşti commune is a member region of Suceava County, being composed by the villages: Calafindeşti (communal residence) and Botoşeniţa-Mare.
From the physical-geographical point of viiew, Calafindeşti's territory is situated in Dragomirnei Plateau, a sub-unit of the Moldavian Plateau and regionally speaking, it is part of Bucovina Province. Calafindeşti village is located on the western hill of Ţăranca Hill (504 m). The village's houses are located at altitudes between 375-504 m, whereas the village's agricultural territory, gets down to about 340 m altitude. Nowadays, the commune with big, neat houses, is only caring the renown of its extremely hardworking people who have never lost their pride, above all the difficulties that occured: the abolition of small industries and the CAP where almost all inhabitans were working.
„The Secular Hayfield from Calafindeşti” natural reserve contains flower elements that ensure a great color diversity on all vegetation season.
History
The first known documentary reference to the present village Calafindeşti was on March 15th, 1490. The document certifying the existence of the village at that time is the act whereby Stephen the Great forwarded to the Rădăuţi Bishopric, where Chir Ioanichie was bishop, 50 churches with priests, out of which 44 in Suceava land (among these the 27t
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Local resources
In Calafindeşti there are the following soil types: cernozomoide levigate, argiloiluviale cenuşii, argiloiluviale brune, podzolice (soluri sărace în humus), aluviale, aluviuni. The soils represent the most important means of producing agicultural and forestry activities. Anthropogenic influences on soil derive from doing these activities more or l
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Traditions
For the purpose of transmitting from generation to generation the beautiful local folk creations (folk songs and dances, screams, laments), the unaltered preservation of folk traditions (countryside hora, carols, "urat", gathering, rack, socializing, patron, egg painitng and breaking) children being taught from the small grades these activities,
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