-
You are here:
- Homepage »
- Gabon »
- Haut-Ogooue » Maila
Maila Destination Guide
Explore Maila in Gabon
Maila in the region of Haut-Ogooué is a town in Gabon - some 295 mi or ( 475 km ) South-East of Libreville , the country's capital city .
Current time in Maila is now 09:51 AM (Friday) . The local timezone is named " Africa/Libreville " with a UTC offset of 1 hours. Depending on the availability of means of transportation, these more prominent locations might be interesting for you: Loubomo, Brazzaville, Bata, Kinshasa, and Yeye. Since you are here already, make sure to check out Loubomo . Where to go and what to see in Maila ? We have collected some references on our attractions page.
Videos
Videos provided by Youtube are under the copyright of their owners.
Interesting facts about this location
Moanda Airport
Moanda Airport is an airport serving Moanda, a town in the Haut-Ogooué Province in Gabon.
Located at -1.54 13.27 (Lat./Long.); Less than 17 km away
Mounana
Mounana is a town in Gabon with a population of about 8,000 people. It lies on the N3 road and from 1958 until the 1990s was a major uranium mining centre. The mine is now closed; it is now primarily a centre for agriculture.
Located at -1.43 13.17 (Lat./Long.); Less than 19 km away
Oklo
Oklo is a region near the town of Franceville, in the Haut-Ogooué province of the Central African state of Gabon. Several natural nuclear fission reactors were discovered in the uranium mines in the region in 1972.
Located at -1.39 13.16 (Lat./Long.); Less than 19 km away
Natural nuclear fission reactor
A natural nuclear fission reactor is a uranium deposit where self-sustaining nuclear chain reactions have occurred. This can be examined by analysis of isotope ratios. The existence of this phenomenon was discovered in 1972 at Oklo in Gabon, Africa, by French physicist Francis Perrin. The conditions under which a natural nuclear reactor could exist had been predicted in 1956 by Paul Kazuo Kuroda. The conditions found were very similar to what was predicted.
Located at -1.39 13.16 (Lat./Long.); Less than 19 km away
Moanda
Moanda is one of the largest towns in Gabon, lying on the N3 road in Haut Ogooué. It is also one of the most important manganese mining towns in the world, under the auspices of the Compagnie Minière de l'Ogooué (COMILOG), which began mining in 1957. Moanda has a population of around 39,298 inhabitants (2010 est. ) and is the second largest city in the Haut Ogooué Region, after Franceville. It is also a border town, lying 100 km away from the border with the Republic of Congo.
Located at -1.57 13.20 (Lat./Long.); Less than 24 km away
Related Locations
Information of geographic nature is based on public data provided by geonames.org, CIA world facts book, Unesco, DBpedia and wikipedia. Weather is based on NOAA GFS.