| Pauléoula | |
| Other Name: | Poléoula |
| Settlement Type: | Village |
| Pushpin Map: | Ivory Coast |
| Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
| Pushpin Mapsize: | 300 |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Ivory Coast |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Type1: | District |
| Subdivision Name1: | Montagnes |
| Subdivision Type2: | Region |
| Subdivision Name2: | Cavally |
| Subdivision Type3: | Department |
| Subdivision Name3: | Taï |
| Subdivision Type4: | Sub-prefecture |
| Subdivision Name4: | Taï |
| Unit Pref: | Metric |
| Population Blank1 Title: | Ethnicities |
| Timezone: | GMT |
| Utc Offset: | +0 |
| Coordinates: | 5.8167°N -31°W |
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]