page_title: Tsimanampetsotsa National Park
section_title: Eastern Zone
hierarchical_section_title: Tsimanampetsotsa National Park / Landscapes / Eastern Zone
caption_attribution_description: English: dry forest with Fony baobab
context_page_description: Tsimanampetsotsa National Park also spelt Tsimanampetsotse, and known as Tsimanampetsotsa Nature Reserve is a 432 km² national park on the south-west coast of Madagascar in the region Atsimo-Andrefana. The park is 90 kilometres south of Toliara and 950 kilometres south of the capital, Antananarivo. Route Nationales 10 to Faux Cap passes the park and the nearest airport is at Toliara. The national park contains and is named after Lake Tsimanampetsotsa.
context_section_description: The fourth and eastern-most zone is found where the limestone of the plateau gives way to an area of red clay soils. The soils are ferruginous  and more conducive to plant growth. Here the vegetation is dry forest or spiny bush with Didiereaceae, Euphorbiaeceae, and Myrrh (Burseraceae) the dominant plant families. Octopus tree (Didieria madagascariensis) is a prominent member of the forests found in this landscape  and it is in this zone that several exceptional fony baobabs (Adansonia rubrostipa) and large Pachypodium geayi can be viewed.
caption: dry forest with Fony baobab
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