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LibrevilleCapital and chief port of Gabon, on the northern shore of the Gabon River estuary; population (2002 est) 467,000 (city), 541,000 (urban area). Products include timber, rubber, cacao, palm-oil, cement, and minerals (including uranium and manganese). Libreville was founded in 1849 as a refuge for slaves freed by the French. The city developed rapidly from the 1970s due to the oil trade. It was capital of French Equatorial Guinea 1888-1904. There is a cathedral, the Sainte-Exupéry French Cultural Centre, and a university (1976). |
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He then came to the capitol city of Libreville as an artist and, until 1999, had a studio in the Petit Paris section of town. In Libreville, the Gabonese capital, around 1,200 metric tons of bushmeat arrives in the markets each day, and in Pointe Noire, the second-largest city of the Congo, an estimated 150,000 metric tons is consumed each year. Recently, however, turtles have switched from being a source of subsistence protein for local consumption to being a highly quoted market product in great demand in the cities, especially Libreville and Bata. |
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