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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 RN2 route between [[Antananarivo]] (225km from) and [[Toamasina|Tamatave ]] (134km). Brickaville is an agricultural centre with plenty The town's name come from Mr Charles Bricka, the once Director of fruit and vegetables. Even mangosteen, an unusual and exotic friut, is available herePublic Works Department during the French colonial period.'''
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Brickaville is an agricultural centre with plenty of fruit and vegetables on offer. The unusual and exotic ''mangosteen'' fruit is available here. An area around close to Brickaville once included cocoa cacao plantations, and the town which was the location of when [[Chocolaterie Robert]], the first chocolate factory in Madagascar, [[Chocolatiere Robert]]was located in the town. As cocoa plantations the cacao farmers eventually moved to the [[Ambanja]] region in the northwest of the country, the cocoa cacao plantations were replaced with converted into sugar cane fields. A train track between Antananarivo and Tamatave runs through Brickaville.

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