Pauléoula

Pauléoula Poléoula
Village
Pauléoula Location in Ivory Coast
Coordinates: 5°49′N 7°24′W
Country	Ivory Coast
District	Montagnes
Region	Cavally
Department	Taï
Sub-prefecture	Taï
Time zone	UTC+0 (GMT)

Pauléoula (also spelled Poléoula) is a village in the far west of Ivory Coast. It is in the sub-prefecture of Taï, Taï Department, Cavally Region, Montagnes District. The village is just over three kilometres east of the Cavally River, which is the border with Liberia.

Pauléoula was a commune until March 2012, when it became one of 1126 communes nationwide that were abolished.[1]

The original population of Pauléoula consisted mostly of members of the Oubi ethnic group, a small subgroup of the Krahn or Guéré people.
A few kilometers east of Pauléoula, within the boundaries of the Taï National Park, lies a small research centre, the 'Institut d'Écologie Tropicale'.[2] It was a lonely house in the forest, not far from this institute, where the Swiss scientist Christophe Boesch in the 1980s conducted his famous research on the behaviour of tool-using Chimpanzees. Later, between 2008 and 2012, the movie Chimpanzee was filmed here, under difficult conditions, and with Boesch as principal scientific consultant.[3]

Notes

1. "Le gouvernement ivoirien supprime 1126 communes, et maintient 197 pour renforcer sa politique de décentralisation en cours", news.abidjan.net, 7 March 2012.
2. At this location: 5,832917, -7,342557
3. See also: Chimpanzee at the International Movie database

External links

• Indexmundi.com