Poutasi

Poutasi is a village on the south east coast of Upolu island in Samoa. The population is 395.^[1] The village is part of Falealili Electoral Constituency (Faipule District) in the larger political district of Atua.^[2] Poutasi was extensively damaged by the 2009 Samoa earthquake and tsunami.^[3]

The artist Fatu Feu'u grew up in Poutasi.^[4] The historian Malama Meleisea is also from Poutasi.^[5]

1. ^ "Census 2016 Preliminary count" (PDF). Samoa Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 2 August 2021.
2. ^ "Samoa Territorial Constituencies Act 1963". Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute. Archived from the original on 5 June 2011. Retrieved 19 December 2009.
3. ^ "Over 100 feared dead in Samoa tsunami". Television New Zealand. Reuters. 30 September 2009. Retrieved 4 November 2011.
4. ^ "Eight Pasifika artists acknowledged at Arts Pasifika Awards 2022". Creative NZ. Retrieved 2022-10-11.
5. ^ Malama., Meleisea (1987). The making of modern Samoa : traditional authority and colonial administration in the history of Western Samoa. [Suva, Fiji]: Institute of Pacific Studies of the University of the South Pacific. p. back cover. ISBN 9820200318. OCLC 19102181.
6. ^ Talaia Mika (23 May 2023). "Poutasi and Hastings sign sister-city deal". Samoa Observer. Retrieved 24 May 2023.

14°02′S 171°42′W / 14.033°S 171.700°W / -14.033; -171.700

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