Manarivo Bay

This stretch of sea lies off Anosy, the southeastern corner of Madagascar. Rivers descend from the interior toward a coast of lagoons, dunes and headlands near Fort Dauphin. Manarivo is a place associated with the country along the Efaho River, inland from this shore. In the seventeenth century the French established Fort Dauphin on the coast, bringing their settlement into the political world of the Antanosy communities around it.