Location
Location of the Royal Hill of Ambohimanga in MadagascarThe hill of Ambohimanga is located in the central highlands of Madagascar, approximately 24 kilometers east of the capital city of Antananarivo in Madagascar. The name Ambohimanga is a noun-adjective compound composed of two parts: ambohi, meaning "hill" in standard Malagasy language, and manga, which can mean "sacred", "blue" or "beautiful/good". Rising from among the surrounding valleys and terraced rice paddies, the hill is topped with a forest that was exempted from the widespread deforestation of the highlands due to its sacred nature. The World Heritage Site encompassing the hill extends over a surface area of 59 hectares, with a buffer zone of 425 hectares.
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