Until the 2017 administrative reform of Estonian municipalities the village was located in Tarvastu Parish.

Pahuvere located 25 km (15 miles) south of the town of Viljandi.

The village is the site of Pahuvere manor, built by Baltic German nobility.

[4] Pahuvere is the birthplace of Estonian poet, prose writer, critic, translator, essayist and politician Johannes Semper (1892–1970).

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