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Morondava
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| Country | Madagascar |
| Region | Menabe |
| Elevationcoastal | 8 m (26 ft) |
Morondava [murunˈdav̥] is a city located in Menabe Region, of which it is the capital, in Madagascar. It is located in the delta of the Morandava River at .
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| Climate data for Morondava | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Average high °C (°F) | 32 (90) |
32 (90) |
32 (90) |
32 (90) |
30 (86) |
28 (83) |
28 (82) |
28 (83) |
29 (85) |
31 (87) |
32 (89) |
32 (90) |
30.6 (87) |
| Average low °C (°F) | 23 (74) |
23 (74) |
23 (73) |
21 (70) |
18 (64) |
16 (60) |
14 (58) |
16 (60) |
18 (64) |
21 (69) |
22 (72) |
23 (74) |
19.8 (67.7) |
| Precipitation mm (inches) | 246 (9.7) |
221 (8.7) |
119 (4.7) |
15 (0.6) |
8 (0.3) |
8 (0.3) |
3 (0.1) |
3 (0.1) |
8 (0.3) |
10 (0.4) |
18 (0.7) |
124 (4.9) |
782 (30.8) |
| Source: Weatherbase [1] | |||||||||||||
Air Madagascar has regular scheduled flights to Morondava Airport. The main road to town has been renovated recently. With the new road established, a trip from Antananarivo to Morondava by taxi-brousse takes approximately 12 hours. Pirogues are consequently a popular mode of transport used to ferry people and goods up and down the coast, especially to Morombe.
The city is famous amongst other things for the spectacular Avenue of Baobabs nearby at . These giant baobab trees are an 800 year-old legacy of the dense tropical forests that once throve here. Over the years, as the country's population grew, the forests were slowly but surely cut down, leaving only the baobab trees, which the locals preserved for religious reasons. Today, deforestation still continues as large areas of this region, including some of few remaining baobabs, are still being cleared to make way for sugar cane plantations.
The Tsingy de Bemaraha Strict Nature Reserve, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is located 150 km north of Morondava. The road from Morondava is poor, but Tsingy de Bemahara is well reachable by 4x4 in approximately 10 hours.
Kirindy Forest at is a nature reserve about 60 km from Morondava where many of the local species of lemurs as well as other plants and animals can be spotted during a day or night trip.
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