Manjakandriana is a town and commune in

Manjakandriana District Manjakandriana District is a district in central Madagascar. It is part of Analamanga Region. Its capital is Manjakandriana. Communes The district is further divided into 23 communes: * Alarobia * Ambanitsena * Ambatolaona * Ambatomanga, Manj ...

Analamanga Analamanga is a region in central Madagascar, containing the capital Antananarivo and its surrounding metropolitan area. The region has an area of , and had a population of 3,618,128 in 2018. Administrative divisions Analamanga Region is divided in ...

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, in the Central Highlands of

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 is located 47 km east of

Antananarivo Antananarivo ( French: ''Tananarive'', ), also known by its colonial shorthand form Tana, is the capital and largest city of Madagascar. The administrative area of the city, known as Antananarivo-Renivohitra ("Antananarivo-Mother Hill" or "An ...

on the Route Nationale RN2 and the railway line from

Toamasina Toamasina (), meaning "like salt" or "salty", unofficially and in French Tamatave, is the capital of the Atsinanana region on the east coast of Madagascar on the Indian Ocean. The city is the chief seaport of the country, situated northeast of it ...

Economy

The economy is based on agriculture. Rice,

maize Maize ( ; ''Zea mays'' subsp. ''mays'', from es, maíz after tnq, mahiz), also known as corn (North American and Australian English), is a cereal grain first domesticated by indigenous peoples in southern Mexico about 10,000 years ago. Th ...

, peanuts,

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manioc ''Manihot esculenta'', 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 cultivated a ...

are the main crops.

Local Attractions

The

Peyrieras Reptile Reserve Madagascar Exotic (also known as the Peyrieras Butterfly Farm, Peyrieras Nature Farm and Mandraka Reptile Farm) is a small privately run reserve (or zoo) at Marozevo, on National Road N2, east of Antananarivo, between the towns of Manjakandriana a ...

(a butterfly farm and reptile center) is at Marozevo, east of Manjakandriana on the Route Nationale RN2.

References

Populated places in Analamanga {{Analamanga-geo-stub