[2][3] It can be reached by the National road 55 or pirogue from Morondava.

[4] The district has an area of 7,784 km2 (3,005 sq mi), and the estimated population in 2020 was 231,431.

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.

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.