High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Toliara (formerly Toliary or Tulear) is a province of Madagascar with an area of 161,405 km . It has a population of 2,229,550 (July, 2001). Its capital is Toliara. Near Toliara is the "spiny forest".The Madagascar spiny thickets (also known as the Madagascar spiny forests) is an ecoregion in Madagascar. The vegetation type is found on poor substrates with low, erratic winter rainfall. An estimated 14,000 to 17,000 square miles (44,000 km2) is covered with this habitat, all in the southwest of the country. The ecoregion contains an outstanding proportion of endemic plant species.Many constituent plants show extreme adaptations to drought. Spiny plants of the endemic family Didiereaceae form a conspicuous component, especially towards the east. They are woody but distantly related to the Cacti (See Caryophyllales). The remaining component of the thickets is dominated by members of the Burseraceae, Euphorbiaceae, Anacardiaceae and Fabaceae families of plants, all which have representatives elsewhere.

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