Pauléoula (also spelled Poléoula) is a village in the far west of

Ivory Coast Ivory Coast, also known as Côte d'Ivoire and officially the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire, is a country on the southern coast of West Africa. Its capital city of Yamoussoukro is located in the centre of the country, while its largest List of ci ...

. It is in the

sub-prefecture A subprefecture is an administrative division of a country that is below prefecture or province. Albania There are twelve Albanian counties or prefectures, each of which is divided into several districts, sometimes translated as subprefectures. ...

of Taï, Taï Department,

Cavally Region Cavally Region is one of the 31 regions of Ivory Coast. From its establishment in 2011, to 2014 it was in Montagnes District. The seat of the region is Guiglo and the region's population in the 2021 census was 708,241. Cavally is currently divid ...

Montagnes District Montagnes District ( , "Mountains") is one of fourteen administrative districts of Ivory Coast. The district is located in the western part of the country, bordering Liberia and Guinea to the west, Woroba District to the north, Sassandra-Marahou ...

. The village is just over three kilometres east of the Cavally River, which is the border with

Liberia Liberia, officially the Republic of Liberia, is a country on the West African coast. It is bordered by Sierra Leone to Liberia–Sierra Leone border, its northwest, Guinea to Guinea–Liberia border, its north, Ivory Coast to Ivory Coast–Lib ...

. Pauléoula was a commune until March 2012, when it became one of 1126 communes nationwide that were abolished. 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 Taï National Park () is a national park in Ivory Coast that contains one of the last areas of primary rainforest in West Africa. It was inscribed as a World Heritage Site in 1982 due to the diversity of its flora and fauna. Five mammal species ...

, lies a small research centre, the 'Institut d'Écologie Tropicale'. It was a lonely house in the forest, not far from this institute, where the Swiss scientist

Christophe Boesch Christophe Boesch (11 August 1951 – 14 January 2024) was a French-Swiss primatologist who studied chimpanzees. He and his wife worked together, co-wrote articles and co-directed documentaries about chimpanzees. Biography Boesch was born in St. ...

in the 1980s conducted his famous research on the behaviour of tool-using Chimpanzees. Later, between 2008 and 2012, the movie

Chimpanzee The chimpanzee (; ''Pan troglodytes''), also simply known as the chimp, is a species of Hominidae, great ape native to the forests and savannahs of tropical Africa. It has four confirmed subspecies and a fifth proposed one. When its close rel ...

was filmed here, under difficult conditions, and with Boesch as principal scientific consultant.See also: Chimpanzee at th
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