The paper briefly presents the physico-geographical characteristics of the Danube River basin in order to introduce data and considerations on the river water and sediment discharges, focusing on the coarse-grained bed-and suspended loads. The analysis of interactions between the water flow and the riverbed physical structure allowed to establish the empirical functions of the bed-and suspended coarse-grained sediment load transport. For a given cross-section a linear dependence between the

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... age specific water discharge and the coarse sediment bed-load average specific discharge as well as the mean concentration of the suspended coarse sediment was found. The coarse-grained sediment transport empirical functions based on a long series data for the period 1965-1989 allowed the determination of the daily coarse-grained bed-and suspended sediment discharges along the Romanian Danube River section for an extended period between 1840 and 2012. The multiannual average values and maximum annual discharges of the bed-and suspended coarse-grained sediment load (d50%>0.063 mm) have been computed for the cross-sections downstream the Iron Gates barrages. For the coarse-grained bed load: • The multiannual average values of the bed-load discharge vary from 14.6 kg/s at Gruia (km 856.5) to 5.6 kg/s at Ceatal Ismail (Km 80.5); • The maximum values of the bed-load discharge vary between 23.9 kg/s at Zimnicea (km 553.23) and 47.9 kg/s at Grindu (km 141.3). • For the coarse-grained suspended load: • The multiannual average values of the coarse-grained suspended load discharge vary between 54.1 kg/s at Zimnicea and 130.1 kg/s at Ceatal Ismail; • The maximum values of the coarse-grained suspended load discharge vary from 400 kg/s at Corabia (km 624.2) to 2048 kg/s at Ceatal Ismail.