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

[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.