Madagascar Research Paper

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Madagascar is extremely different place from what I am used to in California. The people of Madagascar, called Madagascans live their lives in very unique ways. Their government, ecosystem, landforms, history, economy, culture, and everyday life are dissimilar to ours, while their climate is actually somewhat similar.

Madagascar is an island off of the eastern coast of Africa. Being an island, it means that it is not bordered by any other countries. It is however, surrounded by the Indian Ocean. It has an absolute location of 18.7669 ° S, 46.8691 ° E. This puts it in the Southern hemisphere, and the Eastern hemisphere. This makes it about 10,933 miles from Escondido, California.

There are various different landforms throughout Madagascar. For example, one of the major landforms is the high plateau. In fact, the central part of the island is call the Central Highlands, or the Central High Plateaus. A high plateau is a flat area of land raised above the different land around it. The central portion of Madagascar is also extremely mountainous. Some of the mountains in this area include the Ambohitra mountain at 1,475m, the Angavo mountain (also known as the Great Cliff) is 1,969m , and Mt. Maromokotro is 2,876 m. It also has the Betsiboka, Tsiribihina, Mangoky and Onilahy river. Surrounding Madagascar is the Indian Ocean, which means that …show more content…

What does agriculture mean? Currently Madagascar’s main forms of economic activity comes from farming, forestry, and fishing. Some of the most notable crops farmed here include coffee, vanilla, and rice. Most of the vanilla we have today mostly comes from Madagascar what percent?, because the vanilla farming has majorly expanded across the east coast of Madagascar. In the tenth century, they had started to grow rice in the Central Highlands of Madagascar. Give me more info on rice and coffee. Also, what about forestry and

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