Pauléoula
Pauléoula | |
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Village | |
  Pauléoula Location in Ivory Coast | |
| Coordinates: 5°49′N 7°24′W / 5.817°N 7.400°W | |
| Country |  Ivory Coast |
| District | Montagnes |
| Region | Cavally |
| Department | Taï |
| Sub-prefecture | Taï |
| Time zone | UTC+0 (GMT) |
Pauléoula (also: 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 from a lonely house in the forest, not far from this institute, that the Swiss scientist Christophe Boesch in the 1980's conducted his famous research on the behaviour of tool-using Chimpanzees. Later, between 2008-2012, the movie Chimpanzee was filmed here, under difficult conditions, and with Boesch as principal scientific consultant.[3]
Notes
- ^ "Le gouvernement ivoirien supprime 1126 communes, et maintient 197 pour renforcer sa politique de décentralisation en cours", news.abidjan.net, 7 March 2012.
- ^ At this location: 5,832917, -7,342557
- ^ See also: Chimpanzee at the International Movie database
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