Official Name: | Morombe (district) |
Pushpin Map: | Madagascar |
Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Madagascar |
Pushpin Mapsize: | 180 |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Region |
Subdivision Name1: | Atsimo-Andrefana |
Subdivision Type2: | District |
Subdivision Name2: | Morombe |
Government Footnotes: | [1] |
Area Total Km2: | 7,784 |
Population As Of: | 2020 |
Population Total: | 231,431 |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Population Blank1 Title: | Ethnicities |
Population Blank1: | Vezo |
Population Blank2 Title: | Religions |
Timezone: | EAT |
Utc Offset: | 3 |
Coordinates: | -21.75°N 65°W |
Elevation M: | 7 |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
Postal Code: | 618 |
Morombe is a district of Atsimo-Andrefana in Madagascar.[2] [3] It can be reached by the National road 55 or pirogue from Morondava. It is situated at 283 km from Tulear.[4] The district has an area of, and the estimated population in 2020 was 231,431.[5]
An airport serves the town.
For 17 years now there is no television available in Morombe. At the time the transmitter broke down, the director took it to Tulear and later to Antananarivo but it was never returned.[6]
The district is further divided into eight municipalities:
The largest baobab in this world is found in the village of Belintsaka, 23 km from Morombe. It has a circumference of almost 28m.There are more than 6000 adult baobabs alone in the forest of Andombiry of which 30 specimen are very large, with a circumference of more than 20m.[7]