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Brickaville

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'''Brickaville, officially named Ampasimanolotra, although everyone refer to though better known by its old original name of BrickavillaBrickaville, is located on along the rout RN2 route between [[Antananarivo]] (225km from) and [[Toamasina|Tamatave ]] (134km). The town's name come from Mr Charles Bricka, the once Director of Public Works Department during the French colonial period.''' <div style="max-width:600px;">{{#display_map:-18.820192, 49.07198~'''Brickaville'''~~;|type=satellite|service=google|width=auto|height=400|zoom=13|controls=pan, zoom, type, scale|copycoords=yes|icon=https://www.madacamp.com/images/madagascar/Green_marker.png}}</div> Brickaville is an agricultural town centre with plenty of fruit and vegetable to be foundvegetables on offer. Even mangosteen (an The unusual and exotic friot) ia availavble ''mangosteen'' fruit is available here. An important crop is sugar. The area close to Brickaville once included cacao plantations, which was once a cocoa producing regionwhen [[Chocolaterie Robert]], the first chocolate factory in Madagascar, before was located in the town. As the cocoa plantations cacao farmers eventually moved to the [[Ambanja]] region in the northwest of the country, the cacao plantations were converted into sugar cane fields. A train track between Antananarivo and Tamatave runs through Brickaville.'''

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