Astara city
Astara district is allocated at the southern – east of the country, on the border with Iran. That is one of the beautiful areas of the republic. Part of the area territory is occupied by Talish Mountains, part’s – bottoms. Astarachay and Tengerud rivers takes its outset higher in mountains and are fallen down onto Caspian Sea. Forests covered 37000 hectares of the territory.
Picturesque Talish Mountains always charmed way farer by its unrepeatable beauty and freshness. French painter, Alberto Pepin, having been stayed at those land in 1886 in conjunction with his fellowman-traveler Gabriel Bonvalut had engraved in his piece of work, Talish mountains, marvelous landscape, life and homehold, culture, folkways and customs, garment of local habitants. Talish Mountains are covered with thick wood, main part of which constitute relict trees such as oak, demiragaj (ferrous tree). Rigid wood of the ferrous tree is used for manufacturing of textile machine tools, dugout, and details for textile industry. Here, there are widen such as wild quince, mushmula, May-flower. Black-berry, silky acacia with pink colors, eternal green butcher’s broom; among of family of lianas: sarsaparilla, ivy. Fauna of Talish forests is luxuriant and diverse. Therein wolfs lynxes, deer, roes, porcupines and other animals are being habituated. In the district on the seashore, there are many splendid beaches, and water is pure and transparent.