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]
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Sister cities
In May 2023 Poutasi signed a sister cities agreement with the Hastings District in New Zealand.[6]
References
- ^ "Census 2016 Preliminary count" (PDF). Samoa Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 2 August 2021.
- ^ "Samoa Territorial Constituencies Act 1963". Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute. Archived from the original on 5 June 2011. Retrieved 19 December 2009.
- ^ "Over 100 feared dead in Samoa tsunami". Television New Zealand. Reuters. 30 September 2009. Retrieved 4 November 2011.
- ^ "Eight Pasifika artists acknowledged at Arts Pasifika Awards 2022". Creative NZ. Retrieved 2022-10-11.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Talaia Mika (23 May 2023). "Poutasi and Hastings sign sister-city deal". Samoa Observer. Retrieved 24 May 2023.
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