Greenville is the capital of
Sinoe County in southeastern
Liberia
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and lies on a
lagoon near the
Sinoe River and the
Atlantic Ocean. It is located about 150 miles southeast of
Monrovia. As of the 2008 national census, the population stood at 16,434.
A hoard of bronze
Kru currency rings discovered in the Sinoe river at Greenville is now in the
British Museum.
The town was built in about 1838 by colonists of the
Mississippi Colonization Society. Part of what was then the
Mississippi-in-Africa colony (now
Sinoe County), Greenville was named after
James Green, a
Jefferson County Judge and one of the first
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planters to send a group of former slaves to Liberia.
The town was destroyed in the
Liberian Civil War but has since been rebuilt around a
port for the local
logging
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Logging is the beginning of a supply chain ...
industry. Before the civil war, the town's main exports were lumber, rubber, and agricultural products.
The
Sapo National Park lies near the town. Boats sail from Greenville to
Monrovia and
Harper
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.
Greenville experiences on average 185 rainy days per year.
Ramsar Convention On Wetlands
The mean temperature of the town's coolest month is 24 degrees Celsius and 27 degrees Celsius for its warmest month.
Greenville has the third-largest port in Liberia. The port has two quays (70 m and 180 m long, respectively) on the inner side of the breakwater for berthing facilities, with an existing water depth of 6 m below chart datum.
References
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Sinoe County
1838 establishments in Liberia
County capitals in Liberia
Populated places established in 1838
Populated places established by Americo-Liberians