Alofau (Samoan: Ālōfau) is a village on the southeast coast of Tutuila Island, American Samoa.
It is also a poor village with residents with low literacy and high unemployment rates.
[5][6] Great surfing conditions can be found in Faga'itua Bay near Alofau.
[8] Alofau Volcano consists of thin-bedded aa and pāhoehoe flows, breccias, dikes, and tuffs exposed in a shield-shaped dome.
The lava flows are thinly bedded primitive olivine basalts, dipping 10-20 degrees away from Alofau village.