MADACASGAR

MADAGASCAR / REPOBLIKA MALAGASY.

Lily Waterfalls.
Second stamp in a set of 2, issued on 17.09.1975.
Face value: 40 Malagasy francs.
Printing: Offeset lithography.
Printed by Cartor Security Printing, Meaucé (France).

Catalogues
- Michel No. 764.
- Scott No. 537.
- StampWorld No. 813.
- Stanley Gibbons No. R 327.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 572.

There are two waterfalls of Lily and they are located very close to the town of Ampefy, in the Itasy region, in a volcanic area in the highlands of the center of the island of Madagascar. The one represented on the stamp has a height of 16 m (53 ft) and a width of 35 m (115 ft). According to tradition, the waterfall owes its name to the daughter of a settler who lost her life when she fell from the top of the fall while playing, and her body was never found: the original name is Antofoto.

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Thanks to Dragan Buškulić for his contribution (https://worldofstamp2.wordpress.com/).