Details About Libreville

Libreville, capital of Gabon, is a port on the Gabon River estuary, near the Gulf of Guinea. Primarily an administrative center, it is also a trade center for a lumbering region. The city was founded in 1843 as a French trading station. Freed slaves were sent there, and in 1848 it was named Libreville. It was the chief port of French Equatorial Africa before the development (1934–46) of Pointe-Noire, in the Congo.