Amboalimena
place in Menabe, Madagascar
Amboalimena is a town and commune (Malagasy: kaominina) in Madagascar. Administratively, it is part of the district of Belo sur Tsiribihina District, in Menabe Region. The population of the commune was approximately 1,000 at the 2001 commune census.
Only primary schooling is available. The majority of the population of the commune are farmers, while an additional 40% receives their livelihood from raising livestock. The most important crop is rice, while other important products are maize and sweet potatoes. Services provide employment for 5% of the population. Additionally fishing employs 5% of the population.
Geography
Amboalimena is situated at 60 km north of Belon'i Tsiribihina on the mouth of the Manambolo River.
“Amboalimena” enters the record as place in Menabe, Madagascar. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Amboalimena, place and Menabe can confirm, complicate or overturn.
Why this record matters
“Amboalimena” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Amboalimena, place and Menabe provides the most credible route into that argument.
The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 19, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q2842135. Authority coordinates are -19.267, 44.450. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2001.
The absence of detail may reflect summary conventions rather than a lack of surviving documentation. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.
How to read it
Use the entry as an orientation point, then follow its citations and revision history. Names, dates and institutional relationships should be checked against the original record.
- Subject orientation
- Search vocabulary
- Locating named sources
The closest primary source, responsible institution and strongest cited specialist reference.
Three-step research path
- Establish the record: confirm the title “Amboalimena”, its source revision and the description used here.
- Expand the search: follow Amboalimena primary sources, Amboalimena archive and Amboalimena research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
- Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.
Questions for further research
- Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Amboalimena”?
- Which institution is responsible for the underlying evidence?
- What terminology or title could unlock a more precise catalogue search?
Search terms from this dossier
This entry incorporates text from “Amboalimena” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.