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Andevoranto
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 . 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 in the region.
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Henri De Solages
Henri de Solages (21 August 1786 – 8 December 1832) was a French Catholic missionary who advocated for missionary work in the Pacific. In 1829, he was named apostolic prefect to Réunion island. The next year he was named prefect of a very large geographic area in the South Pacific. He was tortured and killed in Andevoranto, Madagascar Madagascar (; mg, Madagasikara, ), officially the Republic of Madagascar ( mg, Repoblikan'i Madagasikara, links=no, ; french: République de Madagascar), is an island country in the Indian Ocean, approximately off the coast of East Africa ... in 1832.Goyau, Georges. Les grands desseins missionaires d'Henri de Solages (1786-1832). (1933)Anderson, Gerald H, edBiographical Dictionary of Christian Missions p. 630 (1999)Wiltgen, Ralph M. ''The Founding of the Roman Catholic Church in Oceania, 1825 to 1850'' (Australian National University Press, 1979) (detailed history of de Solages) References {{DEFAULTSORT:Solages, Henri 1786 birth ...
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Vohibinany (district)
Brickaville District is an administrative district in Atsinanana Region, Madagascar; also known as Ampasimanolotra and Vohibinany. Brickaville is located along Route nationale 2 (RN 2), 105 km south of Toamasina (the primary seaport of the country) and 220 km east of Antananarivo (the capital). It is also situated alongside the Rianila river. It is a railway station on the Antananarivo - East Coast line. Its main industries revolve around sugar.Lonely Planet Madagascar & Comoros
p. 197 (2008)


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The district is further divided into 17 communes; which are further sub-divided into 180 villages (fokontany): * *
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Brickaville District
Brickaville District is an administrative district in Atsinanana Region, Madagascar; also known as Ampasimanolotra and Vohibinany. Brickaville is located along Route nationale 2 (RN 2), 105 km south of Toamasina (the primary seaport of the country) and 220 km east of Antananarivo (the capital). It is also situated alongside the Rianila river. It is a railway station on the Antananarivo - East Coast line. Its main industries revolve around sugar.Lonely Planet Madagascar & Comoros
p. 197 (2008)


Communes

The district is further divided into 17 communes; which are further sub-divided into 180 villages (fokontany): * *
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Canal Des Pangalanes
The Canal des Pangalanes is a canal that consists of a series of natural rivers, waterways and human-made lakes that extends for over and runs down the east coast of Madagascar from Mahavelona to Farafangana. It is used primarily for transportation and fishing, and it has unspoiled natural beaches that are visited by tourists. An initial area of the canal in Toamasina (unofficially and in French referred to as Tamatave) is straight, while subsequent areas have curves, lagoons, connected lakes and swamps. Construction efforts began during the era of the Merina monarchy, with major expansion during the French colonial period between 1896 and 1904, and additional expansion during 1949–1957. Construction has included the manual cutting and removal of outcrops to connect previously unconnected areas. Construction Initial expansion and maintenance of Canal des Pangalanes during the time of the Merina monarchy (c. 1540–1897), involved cutting through outcrops to connect areas. ...
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Canal Des Pangalanes 2019-10-20 3
Canals or artificial waterways are waterways or engineered channels built for drainage management (e.g. flood control and irrigation) or for conveyancing water transport vehicles (e.g. water taxi). They carry free, calm surface flow under atmospheric pressure, and can be thought of as artificial rivers. In most cases, a canal has a series of dams and locks that create reservoirs of low speed current flow. These reservoirs are referred to as ''slack water levels'', often just called ''levels''. A canal can be called a ''navigation canal'' when it parallels a natural river and shares part of the latter's discharges and drainage basin, and leverages its resources by building dams and locks to increase and lengthen its stretches of slack water levels while staying in its valley. A canal can cut across a drainage divide atop a ridge, generally requiring an external water source above the highest elevation. The best-known example of such a canal is the Panama Ca ...
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Calumma Vohibola
''Calumma vohibola'' is a species of chameleon Chameleons or chamaeleons (family Chamaeleonidae) are a distinctive and highly specialized clade of Old World lizards with 202 species described as of June 2015. The members of this family are best known for their distinct range of colors, bein ... found in Madagascar. References Calumma Reptiles of Madagascar Reptiles described in 2011 Taxa named by Miguel Vences Taxa named by Frank Glaw {{chameleon-stub ...
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Brookesia Minima
''Brookesia minima'', (common names of which include the dwarf chameleon, the Madagascan dwarf chameleon, the minute leaf chameleon, and the Nosy Be pygmy leaf chameleon), is a diminutive chameleon that was regarded as the smallest lizard of the Chamaeleonidae until a smaller species, ''Brookesia nana'', was described in 2021. Range ''B. minima'' is endemic to Nosy Be, an island located just off the northwest coast of Madagascar, but has extralimital distribution to Manongarivo Reserve on Madagascar's northwest coast. Description ''B. minima'' is the third-smallest lizard ever described. The species has the independently rotating eyes and prehensile tail characteristic of all chameleons. It is coloured light grey on the head, back and tail, although the tail becomes orange then yellowish towards the tip. The sides of the body are brown, occasionally interrupted by dark brown spots, and the limbs are almost entirely dark brown. Spotted patterning appears to be a stress coloura ...
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Stumpffia Vohibolensis
''Stumpffia'' is a genus of microhylid frogs that are endemic to Madagascar. They are mostly brown frogs that typically live among leaf litter. ''S. contumelia'' has a snout–vent length of about , making it one of the world's smallest frogs, and several others in the genus are only slightly larger. The largest species is no more than . The majority of the species have only been described since 2010. Each species has a small range and many are seriously threatened. Taxonomy ''Stumpffia'' was first described from the single species ''Stumpffia psologlossa'' Boettger, 1881, based on a single specimen collected on Nosy Be, a large island off the northwest coast of Madagascar, by Anotonio Stumpff. By 2017, 15 species were recognised. In late 2017, a major revision of the genus was published. This study used integrative taxonomy, i.e. the combination of multiple different datasets, to delimit and describe new species: it combined morphological, morphometric, chromatic (co ...
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Stumpffia Pygmaea
''Stumpffia pygmaea'' is a species of frog in the family Microhylidae. It is endemic to Madagascar, where it is known from only two islands, Nosy Be and Nosy Komba. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, plantations. Male ''Stumpffia pygmaea'' have a snout–vent length of , and females a snout-vent length of . ''Stumpffia pygmaea'' is a terrestrial microhylid frog. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, plantations, and heavily degraded former forest. It is threatened by habitat loss Habitat destruction (also termed habitat loss and habitat reduction) is the process by which a natural habitat becomes incapable of supporting its native species. The organisms that previously inhabited the site are displaced or dead, thereby .... Sources * References External links * Stumpffia Amphibians described in 1991 Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Microhylidae-stub ...
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Minute Leaf Chameleon (Brookesia Minima) Lokobe
''Brookesia minima'', (common names of which include the dwarf chameleon, the Madagascan dwarf chameleon, the minute leaf chameleon, and the Nosy Be pygmy leaf chameleon), is a diminutive chameleon that was regarded as the smallest lizard of the Chamaeleonidae until a smaller species, '' Brookesia nana'', was described in 2021. Range ''B. minima'' is endemic to Nosy Be, an island located just off the northwest coast of Madagascar, but has extralimital distribution to Manongarivo Reserve on Madagascar's northwest coast. Description ''B. minima'' is the third-smallest lizard ever described. The species has the independently rotating eyes and prehensile tail characteristic of all chameleons. It is coloured light grey on the head, back and tail, although the tail becomes orange then yellowish towards the tip. The sides of the body are brown, occasionally interrupted by dark brown spots, and the limbs are almost entirely dark brown. Spotted patterning appears to be a stress ...
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