Andevoranto is a rural municipality in the Brickaville District, Atsinanana Region, Madagascar.
It is located near the coast and near the mouth of the Rianila RiverIslands in the Southern Indian Ocean, p. 123 (1891) (historical description of town) at a distance of 20 km from Brickaville.PLAN COMMUNAL DE DEVELOPPEMENT (PCD) DE LA COMMUNE RURALE D’ANDOVORANTO 2017-2021
During the French colonial rule of the island, Andrevoranto was the capital of Andevoranto Province, and sources also described it as a former capital of the Betsimisaraka people in the region.EVOLUTION DU DECOUPAGE ADMINISTRATIF (see 1908 map), Retrieved February 22, 2013Halcombe, J.J. (ed.) Mission Life, Vol. 8 Part 1, p. 32 (1877)Little, William Henry. Madagascar: its history and people, p. viii (1884) ("the interesting and important town of Andevoranto--the ancient capital of the once independent and powerful Betsimisaraka tribe.") The town was at that point also the junction of a number of important roads, including the key road from the coast to the capital, Antananarivo.Report by Acting Consul Whitney, of Madagascar (1884) Today, the key route of Route nationale 2 from the capital is located west of Andevoranto.
Railroad There is a train station at Ambila-Lemaitso (Train DIA SOA) on the line from Toamasina-Antananarivo.
Geography It is situated 20 km South of Brickaville and 100 km from Toamasina.
Bodies of Waters
The Canal des Pangalanes follows the coastline a few hundred meters distance from North to South. This is a channel that connects the lakes of the region, as the Anjamborona Lake that is the largest in the municipality.
Fokontany 12 Fokontany (villages) are part of this municipality: Andovoranto, Ambatobe, Ianakonitra, Andavakimena, Sondrara, Manakambahiny, Ambodivoara, Vohitrampasina, Vavony, Ambila Lemaitso, Manaratsandry and Manerinerina.
Nature
The Vohibola ReserveL'Express.mg: Trafics & deforestation that also is found the smallest frog on earth, Stumpffia pygmaea and Stumpffia vohibolensis but also the smallest cameleon Brookesia minima of this planetLe Mondes: Sauver la Foret de Vohibola and Calumma vohibola, another species of cameleons.
Personalities Henri de Solages
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