Makokou is a city of the Gabon, the chief town of the province of the Ogooué-Ivindo. Located near the confluence of the rivers Liboumba and Ivindo, Makokou was founded in 1912 to be used as military station with a strategic point. With its 15000 inhabitants, it is today a modest regional capital which could experience a significant development in the future. Indeed, the surroundings are rich in iron ore, now unexploited. So that it can the being, it would be necessary to build a section of the Transgabonais which makes it possible to evacuate the production. This project is currently given up, for financial reasons. But if the course of the raw materials were to fly away, it could become again of topicality. The railroad would also make it possible to start the forestry development with large scales and, perhaps also, to supply Libreville in market gardenings.