Korhogo

Korhogo is a town in Korhogo Department in the north-central region of Côte d'Ivoire or the Ivory Coast. It has a population of 174,000 (estimate). It produces and/or processes goods such as cotton, kapok, rice, millet, peanuts, corn, yams, sheep, goats and diamonds. The town was on an important pre-colonial trade route to the Atlantic coast. It is said to have been founded by Nangui, a 14th-century Senufo patriarch and still is the capital of the Senufo people.