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Brickaville

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'''Brickaville, officially named Ampasimanolotra, although everyone refers 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). The town 's name originates come from Mr Charles Bricka, the once Director of Public Works Department during the French colonial timesperiod.'''
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Brickaville is an agricultural centre with plenty of fruit and vegetableson offer. Even mangosteen, an The unusual and exotic friut, ''mangosteen'' fruit is available here. The An area around close to Brickaville once included cocoa cacao plantations and the town is the site of , which was when [[Chocolaterie Robert]], the first chocolate factory in Madagascar, namely [[Chocolaterie 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. There is a traintrack from A train track between Antananarivo to and Tamatave via runs through Brickaville.

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