Vârful Detunata Flocoasă

Detunata Flocoasă is a basalt cliff 1,258 m high, taller than Detunata Goală. Detunata Flocoasă and Detunata Goală are two separate nature reserves; Detunata Flocoasă covers 5 ha and is a botanical and geological reserve (IUCN category IV), protected under Law no. 5/2000. Located on the territory of the commune of Bucium, in the Munții Metaliferi, Alba County, just over 1 km from Detunata Goală, Detunata Flocoasă owes its name to the dense spruce forest that covers it from top to bottom ("flocoasă" meaning shaggy or fluffy with firs, in the local speech of the Moți people). Unlike Detunata Goală, where the basalt columns are freely exposed to view, here the vegetation partially conceals the geological formations, and the place is harder to access. The prismatic hexagonal basalt columns are the same as those at Detunata Goală, formed through the slow cooling of volcanic magma several million years ago, but here they are largely covered by spruce forest. Detunata Flocoasă is a nature reserve of national interest, of botanical and geological type (IUCN category IV), covering 5 ha and protected under Law no. 5/2000.