[1] Baie de Baly National Park or Baly Bay National Park is situated in Soalala District in the region of Boeny, close to Soalala and Ambohipaky, approximately 150 kilometres (93 mi) to the next major city Mahajanga.
Vegetation consist of dry deciduous forests, scrub-shrub or bamboo shrub, mangroves, lakes and swamps mixed with savanna.
It is bordered in the north by the Mozambique Channel and in the east by the Bay of Marambitsy.
Other rare animals found in this park is the Madagascan sideneck turtle (Erymnochelys madagascariensis), as well as the dugong, a marine mammal and the Madagascar fish eagle.
The poisonous tree, Erythrophleum couminga (locally named komanga) is also endemic to this region and can be found in and outside the park.