The People and The Spreading In The Area
Due to the high and massive mountains the population here is reduced and because of the climate and the vegetation there is an uneven spreading of the settlements and different ways in which the people use the land. The Arefu and Jiblea depressions - from the south limit - and the Fagaras depression - from the north limit - provide a favourable enviroment for stable settlements since old times.      In the Fagaras depression the large, packed villages formed on 2 lines; one under the mountains, at 3-5km from them, and another one along the Olt Valley, at over 10km from the mountains. Also along this valley are the most used transporting facilities, like the Brasov-Sibiu road and railroad on a east-western direction.      In the southern part of the Fagaras Mountains the villages are more rare and their houses are spread. Roads here are on the large rivers' valleys (The Topolog, The Arges, The Valsan, The Raul Doamnei).      On the west side of the group the Olt valley provides a link between Transilvania and the southern Carpathian settlements; along the roads here there are smaller or larger villages, all having long like aspects. In the Fagaras large forsests there are no stable houses, only chalets which can only provide shelter in certain times of the year. After the Transfagarasean road and the Vidraru dam were built, the chalet network has evolved on the south slope as well as on the north one.