The study on production of activated carbon from cacao shell (Theobroma cacao) was conducted by added 4 M HCl as activating agent. The results show that acidity of solid carbon active before activated with adsorption weight is 3.2865 x10-3 mol. g-1 and after activated is 3.5052 x10-3 mol. g-1. Active carbon result is used for the application at adsorption Cd with some variantion, that are optimum concentration 20 ppm and optimum time 80 min. Cd adsorption from active carbon was analyzed by AAS. The results are coeficient correlation (r 2) 100% followed Freundlich isotherm with K F value was 9.994 and n was-0.982.