Herd Trail

The area along the Maros River is of exceptional natural significance and also holds considerable cultural and historical importance. The Csordajárás area, located near Makó, was formerly used as pastureland. As livestock farming declined, the pasture character gradually diminished, and the land was used as a meadow, later replaced by arable fields and orchards. From the 1980s onward, residents of Makó established small gardens here. Today, the orchards have disappeared from the basin, and the area is divided into arable fields, meadows, and small gardens interspersed with narrow forest strips. Along the river and the levee, willow and poplar gallery forests can be found. One of the main tree species of these wooded areas is the pedunculate oak. Among the protected animal species, the leather ground beetle, stag beetle, pale longhorn beetle, cylindrical straw longhorn beetle, straw longhorn beetle, and the catmint longhorn beetle are noteworthy. A faunal rarity of the Makó Csordajárás is the presence of the shaggy shrub longhorn beetle.