It also controlled land directly north of that placing closer to the interior of its better known contemporaries such as Kongo and Loango.
Formerly included in the Kingdom of Congo, the Kingdom of Loango became independent towards the end of the sixteenth century, at which time it extended from the mouth of the Kwilou to that of the River Congo.
Vegetables of the Americas were also introduced to the interior of the continent through trade; slaves (most often the losers in various conflicts) were travelling to Loango, the mouth of the river and south of the Kongo Kingdom.
Additional dictionaries were created by French missionaries to the Loango coast in the 1780s, and a word list was published by Bernardo da Canecattim in 1805.
Kingdom of Loango, a pre-colonial state in what is now the Republic of Congo
In its earliest attestations in Kikongo dialects in the early seventeenth century it was spelled "mokissie" (in Dutch), as the mu- prefix in this noun class were still pronounced, and was reported by Dutch visitors to Loango as referring both to a material item and the spiritual entity that inhabits it.
In the 19th century they gathered rubber, and participated in the slave trade, sending both their own and acquisitions from further inland to Loango and Fernan Vaz.
In the July–August 2012 parliamentary election, Bouiti-Viaudo stood as the MAR candidate in Loango constituency, located in Kouilou Department.
Gabonese towns among the coastal forests include Lambaréné, home of the Albert Schweitzer Hospital, the logging base of Ndjolé, Fougamou base for visiting the Waka National Park and Gamba, oil hub but also base for visiting Loango National Park.
The town of Linzolo, located 20 km south of Brazzaville and the Livingstone Falls on the Cataractes plateau on the west side of the river, was the chosen site between 1881 and 1883 for the founding of the oldest Catholic Mission in the Congo with that of Loango.
Situated between the Nkomi and Ndogo Lagoons, Loango National Park is the true jewel of Africa's western coast.