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The Ankarana Plateau is located in the extreme north of Madagascar, close to a major volcano, the Montagne d’Ambre. It is an exceptional limestone plateau covered with rock needles: the tsingy. It contains a huge network of caves with dimensions that are often very large. The Ankarana is home to a rich fauna, where crocodiles share the space with lemurs, and a peculiar flora with baobabs, pachypodiums and lianas that root in the limestone carved by erosion.
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Gilli, E. (2019). Presentation. In: The Ankarana Plateau in Madagascar. Cave and Karst Systems of the World. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99879-4_1
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