Loky-Manambato

Loky-Manambato is a protected area near Daraina in northern Madagascar, in the northern part of the Vohemar District.

It is located in northern Sava Region, bounded on the north by the Loky River, on the south by the Manambato River, and on the east by the Indian Ocean.

The protected area covers 2484.09 km2,[3] and includes a block of dry deciduous forests, mangroves, and a large lake, the Sahaka Lake.

[1] Loky-Manambato is in the dry deciduous forests of northern Madagascar, near the transition to the moist evergreen forests of eastern Madagascar and the montane forests of Madagascar's central highlands.

[1] The golden-crowned sifaka or Tattersall's sifaka (Propithecus tattersalli) and the largest scorpion of Madagascar Heteroscorpion magnus were described from specimens collected in this reserve.

Daraina , Sava