Wouri is a river Cameronian whose estuary is located at Douala. For the colonial period (of 1952 to 1954 by French), a bridge was built, connecting Bonabéri to the city. This bridge undergoes work of rehabilitation since October 2004. The first part of the scheme of adopted work was to divide the bridge into two; the cars circulate thus on the right part, the left part being with the care of the engineers. Taxis, mototaxis (called benskins, to pronounce " Ben-sikin") and trains have the obligation not to circulate between 6:00 of the morning and 21 hours for a better traffic. In spite of that, there remains nevertheless of the congestions which penalize the inhabitants who want to cross the river.

The " pont" of Wouri is of capital economic importance for all the Cameronian west. The activity of Bonaberi, which gathers many important companies (concessionary cars, PME/TPE…) and number of employees daily making the return ticket towards the center of Douala, would be directly asphyxiated by a " écroulement" bridge. But beyond, it is all the whole of the exchanges with the West of the country, which would risk smothering.

History of the name of the river

In 1472, the sailors of Fernando Pôo enter the estuary of Wouri, extasient themselves in front of the abundance of shrimps in the river which they call at once Río back Camarões . Since XVIe century until the beginning XXe century, Wouri was known on the name Camarones (translation of Spanish shrimps), from where the current name of Cameroun.

See too

• List of rivers in the world

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