Andevoranto is a rural municipality in the

Brickaville District Brickaville District is an administrative district in Atsinanana Region, Madagascar; also known as Ampasimanolotra and Vohibinany. Brickaville is located along Route nationale 2 (RN 2), 105 km south of Toamasina (the primary seaport of the coun ...

Atsinanana Atsinanana is a coastal region in eastern Madagascar. It borders Analanjirofo region in the north, Alaotra-Mangoro in the west, Vakinankaratra and Amoron'i Mania in the southwest, and Vatovavy and Fitovinany in south. The region contains over 2 ...

Region,

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 near the coast and near the mouth of the Rianila RiverIslands in the Southern Indian Ocean
p. 123 (1891) (historical description of town) at a distance of 20 km from

Brickaville Brickaville is a town and commune in Atsinanana Region, Madagascar. Also known as Ampasimanolotra, Brickaville is located along Route nationale 2 (RN 2), 105 km south of Toamasina (the primary seaport of the country) and 220 km east o ...

. During the French colonial rule of the island, Andrevoranto was the capital of Andevoranto Province, and sources also described it as a former capital of the

Betsimisaraka people The Betsimisaraka ("the many inseparables") are the second largest ethnic group in Madagascar after the Merina and make up approximately fifteen percent of the Malagasy people. They occupy a large stretch of the eastern coastal region of Madagas ...

in the region.EVOLUTION DU DECOUPAGE ADMINISTRATIF
(see 1908 map), Retrieved February 22, 2013Halcombe, J.J. (ed.
Mission Life, Vol. 8 Part 1
p. 32 (1877)Little, William Henry
Madagascar: its history and people
p. viii (1884) ("the interesting and important town of Andevoranto--the ancient capital of the once independent and powerful Betsimisaraka tribe.") The town was at that point also the junction of a number of important roads, including the key road from the coast to the capital,

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 ...

.Report by Acting Consul Whitney, of Madagascar
(1884) Today, the key route of

Route nationale 2 The Route nationale 2 (N 2) is a route nationale in northern France. Route Paris-Soissons-Laon- La Capelle-''Belgium (N 6)'' History The N 2 was initially defined in 1811 as ''route impériale'' 2, running from Paris all the way to Amsterdam via ...

from the capital is located west of Andevoranto.

Railroad

There is a train station at Ambila-Lemaitso ( Train DIA SOA) on the line from Toamasina-Antananarivo.

Geography

It is situated 20 km South of

and 100 km 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 ...

Bodies of Waters

The

Canal des Pangalanes The Canal des Pangalanes is a canal that consists of a series of natural rivers, waterways and human-made lakes that extends for over and runs down the east coast of Madagascar from Mahavelona to Farafangana. It is used primarily for transpor ...

follows the coastline a few hundred meters distance from North to South. This is a channel that connects the lakes of the region, as the Anjamborona Lake that is the largest in the municipality.

Fokontany

12 Fokontany (villages) are part of this municipality: Andovoranto, Ambatobe, Ianakonitra, Andavakimena, Sondrara, Manakambahiny, Ambodivoara, Vohitrampasina, Vavony, Ambila Lemaitso, Manaratsandry and Manerinerina.

Nature

*The Vohibola Reserve that also is found the smallest frog on earth, ''

Stumpffia pygmaea ''Stumpffia pygmaea'' is a species of frog in the family Microhylidae. It is endemic to Madagascar, where it is known from only two islands, Nosy Be and Nosy Komba. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, plantatio ...

'' and ''

Stumpffia vohibolensis ''Stumpffia'' is a genus of microhylid frogs that are endemic to Madagascar. They are mostly brown frogs that typically live among leaf litter. ''S. contumelia'' has a snout–vent length of about , making it one of the world's smallest frogs ...

'' but also the smallest cameleon ''

Brookesia minima ''Brookesia minima'', (common names of which include the dwarf chameleon, the Madagascan dwarf chameleon, the minute leaf chameleon, and the Nosy Be pygmy leaf chameleon), is a diminutive chameleon that was regarded as the smallest lizard of t ...

'' of this planetLe Mondes: Sauver la Foret de Vohibola
/ref> and ''

Calumma vohibola ''Calumma vohibola'' is a species of chameleon Chameleons or chamaeleons (family Chamaeleonidae) are a distinctive and highly specialized clade of Old World lizards with 202 species described as of June 2015. The members of this family are b ...

'', another species of cameleons.

Personalities

* Henri de Solages

References

{{Atsinanana, state=expanded Populated places in Atsinanana