Tautira is a Polynesian beach village, valley, and point on the south-east coast of the island of Tahiti in the Pacific.

With a population of 2,527 (in 2022), it is located 49 kilometres southeast of the Tahitian capital of Papeete on the coast of Tautira Bay, at the end of what is the largest valley of the Taiarapu Peninsula.

Domingo de Bonechea visited the area in 1772 and attempted to spread Christianity here; James Cook landed at Tautira Bay during his voyage.

Robert Louis Stevenson referred to the village as “The Garden of the World”, staying here to recover from illness in 1886.

Tautira is where Catholic missionaries first landed which eventually led to the takeover of Tahiti by the French people, and which also ended Protestants hold on Tahiti: In 1773 the Spaniards established a catholic mission, of two friars, in the bay of Tautira, which was abandoned at eleven months.

Earlier, in 1772, Domingo de Bonechea, the Basque captain landed at Aguilla near the Aiurua River, about 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) from Tautira.

[3] In 1886, Robert Louis Stevenson, the author of Treasure Island, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and other children's books, stayed here for two months to recuperate from his illness.

Stevenson had moved to the village from Papeete and lived in a hut called the "bird-cage house" where the beautiful Princess Moe, an old lady of royalty, tended him back to good health, bringing him dishes of raw fish in coconut milk, lime juice, sea water and chilli.

[7] Tautira is the largest valley of the Taiarapu Peninsula, resembling Papenoʻo in that its innermost areas consist of the principal crater-basin.

Tautira Point is a tongue of low wooded land about 600 yards wide, extending northward .75 miles (1.21 km) from the general line of the coast and from the foot of the mountains.

The barrier reef fronts the coast from Aiurua Pass to Tautira Point at 3,000 feet (910 m) and less from the shore.

From Tautira Point, the coast trends westward 5 miles (8.0 km) to a short distance beyond Pueu village.

[11] About one km of trekking along hilly terrain leads to the Vaitepiha River where three maraes (communal or sacred place which serves religious and social purposes in Polynesian societies) were restored in 1960s.

[11] Partula otaheitana rubescens, an IUCN Red List endangered animalia species, is located in Tautira.