Daloa
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| Daloa | |
  Daloa
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| Country |  Côte d'Ivoire |
| Region | Haut-Sassandra Region |
| Department | Daloa |
| Population ([citation needed]) | |
| - Total | over 100,000 |
| Time zone | GMT (UTC+0) |
Daloa is one of the fifty-eight departments of Côte d'Ivoire, lying west of Yamoussoukro in Haut-Sassandra Region. It is also a town in that department, which has a population of over 100,000. The town of Daloa is a regional capital and an important trading centre, particularly for cocoa. During the Côte d'Ivoire Civil War, it has been regularly contested, and it was allegedly the site of a massacre by government troops in October 2002.
People from Daloa include Ernesto Djédjé.
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Daloa is twinned with:
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