This bridge is one of the oldest bridges built in Liberia in the early 1963. It is the link between Nimba County and Gbarzon District and the rest of Grand Gedeh County and most of the South-eastern region. The bridge crosses over the Cestos River. The is also called “Nuon” or “Nipoué” river in and Gio vernacular. Cestos River or Nipoue originates from Nimba Range of Guinea or Nimba Mountain, and flows south along the Côte d’Ivoire border.
Nipoue River flows southwest forming its tracks through Liberia’s rain forest to empty into a bay on the Atlantic Ocean, where the city River Cess is located. Along the stretches of the Cestos River, the pygmy hippopotamus (ortherwise known as the “Choeropsis liberiensis”) is known to inhabit lands along the river. It forms the northern third of the international boundary between Liberia and Côte d’Ivoire.
During the First Liberian Civil War, the portion of the river near the city of Cestos was a leading food and mineral extraction region for the National Patriotic Front of Liberr.