class="apple-converted-space"> of Côte
d'Ivoire. The department is located in Bas-Sassandra
Region. The town of Sassandra lies on the Gulf
of Guinea at the mouth of the Sassandra River. The town was founded
by the Portuguese as Santo
André and was later run by
the British, then the French as a seaport for timber.
The town declined in the 1960s after San
Pédro's port was completed. Its main industry is now fishing.
