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Bemarivo River

Bemarivo River

River in Madagascar

For other places with the same name, see Bemarivo (disambiguation).

The Bemarivo River (/be.mari.v/), literally the big shallow, is located in northern Madagascar. It drains to the north-eastern coast, into the Indian Ocean. It drains the eastern part of the Tsaratanana Massif and the northern half of the Marojejy Massif.

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It is crossed by the RN 5a near Nosiarina. Its mouth is situated 17 km[2] north of Sambava.

It serves as the northern edge of the territory known as Betsimisaraka.[3] Confusingly, a tributary of the Sofia River is also called the Bemarivo River (Sofia).[4]

References

  1. [1]
    "Madagascar".
  2. [2]
    Riviere Bemarivo-Sambava
  3. [3]
    Helen Chapin Metz, ed., Madagascar: A Country Study, Library of Congress, 1994., accessed 14 August 2008
  4. [4]
    Sparks, J. S. (2008). Phylogeny of the Cichlid Subfamily Etroplinae and Taxonomic Revision of the Malagasy Cichlid Genus Paretroplus (Teleostei: Cichlidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History Number 314: 1-151


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