The Bemarivo River (), literally the ''big shallow'', 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 ...
. It drains to the north-eastern coast, 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 t ...
. It drains the eastern part of the Tsaratanana Massif and the northern half of the
Marojejy Massif.
It is crossed by the
RN 5a near
Nosiarina
Nosiarina is a town and commune ( mg, kaominina) in northern Madagascar. It belongs to the district of Sambava, which is a part of Sava Region.
It is situated at the Bemarivo River and the Route Nationale 5a between Sambava and Vohemar.
The p ...
. Its mouth is situated in the north of
Sambava
Sambava is a city and commune (commune urbaine; mg, kaominina) at the east coast of northern Madagascar. It is the capital of Sambava District and Sava Region. The population of the commune was 84,039 in as of the 2018 commune census.
Infrast ...
.
It serves as the northern edge of the territory known as
Betsimisaraka.
Helen Chapin Metz
Helen Chapin Metz (April 12, 1928 – May 13, 2011) was an American editor and Middle East analyst.
Life
Helen Chapin was born on April 12, 1928, in Peking, China. She was the daughter of diplomat Selden Chapin and Mary Paul Noyes. Her brother, ...
, ed.
Madagascar: A Country Study
Library of Congress, 1994., accessed 14 August 2008 Confusingly, a tributary of the
Sofia River
The Sofia is a river of northwestern Madagascar. It flows through the Sofia Region. The source is at the Tsaratanana Massif at an altitude of 1784 metres. It has a length of .
Its mouth is in the Indian Ocean in the Boriziny-Vaovao District
Bori ...
is also called the
Bemarivo River (Sofia).
[Sparks, J. S. (2008). ''Phylogeny of the Cichlid Subfamily Etroplinae and Taxonomic Revision of the Malagasy Cichlid Genus Paretroplus (Teleostei: Cichlidae).'' Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History Number 314: 1-151]
References
Rivers of Madagascar
Rivers of Sava Region
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