Arivonimamo is a city (commune urbaine) in
Itasy
Itasy is a region in central Madagascar. It borders Analamanga region in northeast,
Vakinankaratra in south and Bongolava in northwest. The capital of the region is Miarinarivo, and the population was 897,962 in 2018. It is the smallest of all t ...
Region, in the
Central Highlands of
Madagascar
Madagascar, officially the Republic of Madagascar, is an island country that includes the island of Madagascar and numerous smaller peripheral islands. Lying off the southeastern coast of Africa, it is the world's List of islands by area, f ...
.
Arivonimamo is connected by the
National Road No.1 to
Antananarivo
Antananarivo (Malagasy language, Malagasy: ; French language, French: ''Tananarive'', ), also known by its colonial shorthand form Tana (), is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Madagascar. The administrative area of the city, known ...
(50 km in the east) and
Tsiroanomandidy
Tsiroanomandidy is a city (''commune urbaine'') in central-western Madagascar, approximately 210 kilometres west of the Capital city, capital Antananarivo.
Tsiroanomandidy is the capital of Bongolava, Bongolava Region and of Tsiroanomandidy Distr ...
(west). The Antananarivo international airport was there until replaced by
Ivato
Ivato is a town and commune in Madagascar. It belongs to the district of Ambohidratrimo (district), which is a part of Analamanga Region.
It lies North from the capital Antananarivo and the Ivato International Airport
Ivato International Ai ...
in 1967. Now it is an
airbase
An airbase (stylised air base in American English), sometimes referred to as a military airbase, military airfield, military airport, air station, naval air station, air force station, or air force base, is an aerodrome or airport used as a mi ...
.
It borders to the communes of
Miarinarivo in the west,
Antananarivo
Antananarivo (Malagasy language, Malagasy: ; French language, French: ''Tananarive'', ), also known by its colonial shorthand form Tana (), is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Madagascar. The administrative area of the city, known ...
and the
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 4,325,226 in 2018.
Administrative divisions
Analamanga Region is divided i ...
region in the North-east.
Climate
Sports
The
soccer
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 Football player, players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a Ball (association football), ball around a rectangular f ...
club of Arivonimamo is ''RDN Arivonimamo''
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See also
*Betafo
Tatamarina Lake in Betafo
Betafo ("many roofs") is a town and urban municipality in Vakinankaratra Region in the Central Highlands of Madagascar. It is surrounded by volcanic peaks and is situated 22 km from Antsirabe. It is a typical Merina tow ...
, a fokontany within Arivonimamo.
* Vatolaivy
References
Populated places in Itasy Region
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