Antalaha

Province

Antalaha is a city on the northeast coast of Madagascar, located north of the Masoala Peninsula. The city's name means place where there is plenty of water.

Geography

Antalaha is 1449 km away from the capital and 537 km from the provincial capital of Masoala Antsiranana (Diego ) and is 88 m above sea level.

15 km south of the city there is in Antsirabato an airport ( IATA code: ANM, ICAO code: FMNH ). From there, there are connections among other things to Antananarivo, Toamasina and. On the road, the place is difficult to achieve.

History

The place in the region of Sava is known as the world capital of vanilla. This introduced from Reunion 1905 product caused an enormous upswing in the region. Today there are also plantations, which grow cloves, coffee, cocoa, pepper, cinnamon and lychee. In addition Antalaha is the center of traditional shipbuilding.

The population grew from 17 541 (1975) on 23 949 (1993) on today around 35 to 000 people. The inhabitants belong to the ethnic groups of the Betsimisaraka, Sakalava and Tsimihety.

Climate

The climate is tropical and humid. Most it rains from January to March. Then it's also pretty hot. September and October are the most pleasant travel months with little rain and temperatures of 21-23 ° C.

Tropical cyclones draw almost every year through the North East of Madagascar. Antalaha was greatly devastated in 2000. Mid-March 2007 (from Indlala ) and beginning of April 2007 ( Jaya ), the city was hit by cyclones. Here, there were at least 90 dead and Antalaha was 90% destroyed.

(Ala = forest, lava = long) The Swiss project was initiated by Erich Steiner. The main reason for this was that the animal and plant life in Madagascar is unique in that Madagascar has separated early from Africa. The rain forest, however, is increasingly being cut down, which can not grow new plants more to the forest clearings. In addition, there are 10 world Küstenurwälder.

However, the project is not only concerned with the forest itself, but also with the population in order to serve schools and cultivate crops. For example, work on the project not only Europeans but locals. The project from the Zurich Zoo is supported, this has to point a private Madagascar greenhouse founded by the people on the species diversity and uniqueness.

Since 2008, the Projet d' Analalava is an Austrian mounting position of foreign service.