Placement:

The Town Motru is placed in D.N. 67A, to 44 km from The Town Targu-Jiu and at 42 km of Dr. Tr. Severin.

Surface:

•    The administrative surface S = 5.009 ha;

•    The constructional surface S1 = 236,2 ha.

•    The rank of the Town – II.

The population and the constructions:

•    Stable population – 22.848;

•    Nr. house-keeping population – 7.476;

•    Nr. buildings – 1.633;

•    Nr. houses – 8.186.

The villages components:

•    Plostina;

•    Dealul Pomilor;

•    Insuratei;

•    Leurda;

•    Rosiuta;

•    Lupoita;

•    Rapa.

The natural founds:

•    Power coal (lignite);

•    Wooden material (beech, oak, acacia).

The faun:

•    Wild animals: foxes, rabbits, pigs wild boars, deer;

•    Fishes: chub, caresses, broad snout, barbel, pike;

•    Bird: wild ducks, storks, white storks, blackbird, starlings, stock doves, etc...

The flora:

•    Plants: tutsan, camomile, brier, dewberry, beech, coltsfoot, plantain, nettle, clovers, melilot, etc.;

•    Across 700 hectares forest: beech, oak, acacia, etc..

The job of the inhabitants:

In industry:

•    Prevailingly the mining through exploitations of lignites exteriorly (careers) and of underground (mines);

•    Other units: of transport, of building, of metallic confection and repair mining equipment, a factory of knit-wear and a feeder manufactory water and thermophore.    

In agriculture:

•    Cultivation: Legumes, vegetables, fructiferous trees, calf, cereals; growing: Bird (hens, geese, duck, turkey hens, etc.) and ovine, bovine and caballine animals.

Folkway and habits:

•    The frequentation of the jobs religious to churches, the rallies with occasion religious holidays, the organization spousal, baptisms and funerals.

•    Feast, titular saints, Romanian round dance, habits of across year, exorcism, the curse, folk song and humorousness.

Historic monuments:

•    The monument of the heroes peoples from the town Motru;

•    The monument of the heroes from the village Rosiuta.

The weather and the relief:

The weather
   
•    Moderate, characterized through gentle winters and warm summers.

The relief 

•    Is consisted of meadows (most big is Motru Meadow stretched on riverbed river Motru) and covered hills with forests.