The Lokoho 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 ...
. It drains to the north-east 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 southern half of the
Marojejy Massif. Its mouth is situated 25 km in the south 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 ...
, near
Farahalana.
There were some projects for the installation of
hydroelectric power plants by
Jirama in the 1970s, but they were never completed.
In 2002 another project, for a plant of 6 kW capacity by
Jirama in cooperation with the French
EDF, German
RWE,
GTZ and Canadian
Hydro-Québec was stopped in 2009
due to the
2009 Malagasy political crisis.
References
External links
Youtube video of ''Lokoho River''
Rivers of Madagascar
Rivers of Sava Region
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