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8 unusual facts about Mananjary


2009–10 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season

It strengthened to a severe tropical storm as it approached the Madagascar coast, and made landfall north of Mananjary.

Antambahoaka

They inhabit a small region along the southeastern coast of Madagascar near Mananjary and share their origins with the partially Arab Antaimoro people.

Betsimisaraka people

The territory today is a thin area of land that stretches along the east coast of Madagascar from the River Bemarivo to the River Mananjary in the south.

They occupy a large stretch of the eastern seabord of Madagascar, from Mananjary in the south to Antalaha in the north.

Death flights

During the Malagasy Uprising of 1947, in Mananjary hundreds of Malagasy were killed, among them 18 women and a group of prisoners thrown from aircraft.

José Alfredo Caires de Nobrega

Bishop José Alfredo Caires de Nobrega (born 12 April 1951 in Caniço (Santa Cruz)) is the bishop of the Diocese of Mananjary in Mananjary, Madagascar.

Libertatia

The precise location is not known, however, most sources say it stretched from the Bay of Antongil to Mananjary, including Île Sainte Marie and Foulpointe.

Malagasy hippopotamus

Little is known about the species, because it was identified with only a lower jaw and limb bones, recovered from a site near Mananjary on the east coast of Madagascar.


Caires

José Alfredo Caires de Nobrega (born 1951), the bishop of the Diocese of Mananjary, Madagascar


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