Matautu

Places named Matautu are found on the two largest islands, Upolu and Savaiʻi.

[1] Matautu is made up of smaller pito-nu'u villages including Fagamalo, Avao, Lelepa, Safa'i and Saleia.

Matautu share strong kinship and cultural ties as well as natural resources including water which is piped from an inland river at Vaipouli.

During the late 1800s and the colonial era of Samoa, Fagamalo, which had a wharf and anchorage, became the main government administration centre on Savai'i.

Tui Fiti a spirit deity in Samoan mythology resides in a sacred grove vao sa in Fagamalo.