General location: 22°22 and 22°40 southern latitude / 45°11 and 45°23 longitude
Location and Access: 683 km southwest of Antananarivo, 279 km southwest Fianarantsoa, 243 km northeast of Toliara.
Climate: Dry tropical forest and savanna
Average temperature: 17-25°C
Elevation: 820 to 1240 m
Precipitation: 85 cm
Description: Isalo's landscape consists of eroded ruiniform sandstone formations dating to the Jurassic period, deep canyons with riparian forests, palm-lined oases, fire-resistant tapia forests, and open grasslands.
FLORA: Isalo is known for its pachypodes (Pachypodium ), aloe and euphorbiums.
The following vegetation zones are found in the park:
Riparian forest found along rivers in the canyons of Isalo
Scattered sclerophyle forest made up of fire-resistant Tapia (Uapaca bojeri) and Heza (Astropeia micraster)
Rupicolous vegetation found on rocky surfaces and consisting of Pachypodiums (Pachypodium geayi, Pachypodium willlamarai, Pachypodium rosulatum, Pachypodium horombese, and Pachypodium densiflorum); Aloes (Aloe acutissima, Aloe isalensis and Aloe detoideodonta); and a species of Kalanchoes
Dry forest on alluvial deposits. Families: 99 Species: 340
Isalo travel guide
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Isalo travel guide - The best resource for sights, hotels, restaurants, bars,... Isalo [pronounced eeshall] National park in the south-west of the country.
Isalo Internet Cafes
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Isalo Internet Cafes - surfing, email, chat and games, wifi hotspots. World66 thetravel guide ... If you do know any Internet Cafes in Isalo, please [Add].
Isalo Massif - photos, informations and reservations
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The Isalo Massif, the sandstone and the granite, erosion had fun to carve atitanic world, with stone sentinels which keep the desert around.
Isalo Massif - photos, informations and reservations
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Landscape of Isalo. The exceptional length of the island, stretched on both sidestropic of Capricorn, as well as the variety of its reliefs
ISALO National Park
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The park covers 81.540ha of the Isalo Massif which rises up from the ...Recommendations: Even driving through Isalo gives some idea of its rugged beauty.
Ambalavao, Horombe And Isalo
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Isalo National Park is dominated by sandstone rocks, eroded over time by windand rain into weird shapes. It contains rare plantlife and a miriad of termite
ISALO : galerie de photos et de cartes postales de ISALO
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the Living Africa: National Parks - Madagascar - Parc National De ...
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Parc National De Isalo. [an error occurred while processing this directive] Thispark was opened in 1962 and covers about 81540 hectares containing some
Madagascar - Isalo
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Madagascar travel guide. Find out what is worth to see in Madagascar. Read Madagascartravel tips.
Steppes Travel: Isalo
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Isalo is a premier hiking destination with its scenery reminiscent of themountainous landscape of Arizonas canyons. There are Ringtail lemurs and Sifakas
ISALO avec madamaki»
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Almost all pictures on this site were taken with a Konica Minolta
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