Mandabe is a town and commune ( mg, kaominina) in

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 ...

. It belongs to the

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Mahabo Mahabo is a city (commune urbaine) in the Menabe Region, Western Madagascar. It has a population of 35,532 in 2018. Geography This town lies on the Route nationale 35 from Morondava Morondava (, from mg, morona lava "long coast") is a city l ...

, which is a part of

Menabe Region Menabe is a region in western Madagascar, with its capital at Morondava. It covers an area of , and its population was 700,577 in 2018. The population mostly belongs to the Sakalava ethnic group. The region is named after the 18th-century Sakalava ...

. The population of the commune was estimated to be approximately 27,000 in 2001 commune

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. An

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serves the commune. Primary and junior level secondary education are available in town. The town provides access to hospital services to its citizens. The majority 95% of the population of the commune are farmers, while an additional 4.5% receives their livelihood from raising livestock. The most important crop is

rice Rice is the seed of the grass species ''Oryza sativa'' (Asian rice) or less commonly ''Oryza glaberrima ''Oryza glaberrima'', commonly known as African rice, is one of the two domesticated rice species. It was first domesticated and grown i ...

, while other important products are

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s and

cassava ''Manihot esculenta'', common name, commonly called cassava (), manioc, or yuca (among numerous regional names), is a woody shrub of the spurge family, Euphorbiaceae, native to South America. Although a perennial plant, cassava is extensively ...

. Services provide employment for 0.5% of the population.

Geography

The town is situated at the

Maharivo River The Maharivo is a river in Menabe region of western Madagascar. It originates on the Makay Massif and flows westwards into the Indian Ocean The Indian Ocean is the third-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, covering or ~19.8% of t ...

and is the endpoint of the RN 9.

Personalities

Andre Resampa Andre Resampa (June 24, 1924 - May 17, 1993) was a Malagasy politician who was the influential Interior Minister of Madagascar at the beginning of the independence in 1960, and appointed as 1st Vice President of Madagascar from October 1970 u ...

(1924-1993), minister of interior

References and notes

Populated places in Menabe {{Menabe-geo-stub