Salamumu is a village on the south west coast of
Upolu island in
Samoa
Samoa, officially the Independent State of Samoa and known until 1997 as Western Samoa, is an island country in Polynesia, part of Oceania, in the South Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main islands (Savai'i and Upolu), two smaller, inhabited ...
. The village has two settlements, Salamumu Uta (population 338) and Salamumu Tai (population 33).
The village's name is derived from the words ''sala'' (fire) and ''mumu'' (punishment), and refers to its origin when people from
Sale'aula were relocated to
Upolu during the 1905—1911 eruption of
Mt Matavanu.
Although the village, area 13.11 km
2, is geographically located on Upolu, the village is politically (and historically) part of the
Gaga'emauga electoral district on the island of
Savai'i.
The people of Salamumu still have strong kinship cultural ties to their land on Savai'i.
Le'auva'a is another settlement on Upolu island which was also relocated from Savai'i following the volcanic eruptions.
Climate
Salamumu has a
tropical rainforest climate
A tropical rainforest climate or equatorial climate is a tropical climate sub-type usually found within 10 to 15 degrees latitude of the equator. There are some other areas at higher latitudes, such as the coast of southeast Florida, United States ...
(Af) with heavy to very heavy rainfall year-round.
References
Populated places in Gaga'emauga
Enclaves and exclaves
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