Pauléoula
Pauléoula Poléoula | |
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Village | |
5°49′N 7°24′W / 5.817°N 7.400°W / 5.817; -7.400 | |
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]
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