Pape'ari is a village on the south coast of Tahiti.

It is located in Tahiti-nui district,[2] around 32 miles from Papeete.

[3] Papeari is attested in some accounts as Tahiti's oldest village.

[4] Some 19th-century sources attest that Papeari was formerly known as Vaiari (or Wyere), a name attributed to an indigenous group.

[6] Tourist sites in and near modern Papeari include the former home of the British novelist Robert Keable, who lived there from 1922 until his death in 1927, and a museum dedicated to the French painter Paul Gauguin, also a former resident of the area (from 1891-3).