24 kilometres (15 mi) north-west on the other side of the Courantyne River lies the Guyanese village of Orealla.

This town is situated on the Surinamese (Eastern) Bank of the river Corantijn [4] and has about 777 inhabitants, originally mainly Ameridians of the Lokono tribe.

[5] In the framework of the West-Suriname plan from 1976 to 1978 an 80 kilometer long railway was built from the south of Apoera to the Bakhuis mountain range, for bauxite mining.

It was intended that Apoera would be developed into a port where bauxite ships could dock, but in the end the railroad was never used for this purpose.

[6][7] According to a study by Pitou van Dijk, the Linden-Paramaribo section has only secondary priority with IIRSA at the moment.