The Irodo River is located in northern

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 ...

. Its sources are situated in the Ambohitra Massif and flows into the

Indian Ocean The Indian Ocean is the third-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, covering or ~19.8% of the water on Earth's surface. It is bounded by Asia to the north, Africa to the west and Australia to the east. To the south it is bounded by th ...

. Near

Sadjoavato Sadjoavato is a town and commune ( mg, kaominina) in Madagascar. It belongs to the district of Antsiranana II in the Diana Region. It is situated between Antsiranana and Ambilombe on the National Road No.6 at a distance of approx. 51 km ...

it formed the

Tsingy Rouge The ''Tsingy Rouge'' (''Red Tsingy'') is a stone formation of red laterite formed by erosion of the Irodo River in the region of Diana in northern Madagascar. It is situated approximately 60 km south of Antsiranana Antsiranana ( mg, Antsir ...

, a stone formation of red

laterite Laterite is both a soil and a rock type rich in iron and aluminium and is commonly considered to have formed in hot and wet tropical areas. Nearly all laterites are of rusty-red coloration, because of high iron oxide content. They develop by ...

formed by erosion.''Tsingy Rouge de Diego Suarez''
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