How far is Gagnoa from Abidjan?

Around 280 kilometres, four to five hours, in the centre-west of the country.

What is Gagnoa known for?

Cocoa and coffee. It is a main trading town of the centre-west and the cultural centre of the Bété people.

Is Gagnoa worth visiting?

As a destination it is modest. It is worth a stop for the market and the plantations, and as a point on a route between Yamoussoukro and the west.

When is the cocoa harvest around Gagnoa?

October to March, when drying beans line the roads throughout the region.

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Gagnoa: cocoa, coffee and the Bété country.

Gagnoa is the centre of the Bété region and one of the main cocoa and coffee towns of the centre-west. It is a lively provincial city with a substantial market and very few visitors, and its interest is precisely that: an Ivorian town going about its business, in the middle of the country that produces more cocoa than anywhere on earth. 280 kilometres from Abidjan.

Village near the town

A working town in the cocoa belt

Nobody goes to Gagnoa for monuments. It is a provincial city in the heart of the cocoa and coffee belt, culturally the centre of the Bété, and worth a stop for the market and for the plantations around it. In harvest season, October to March, beans dry along the roadside for kilometres.