Leloaloa, American Samoa

Leloaloa LA
Village
Nickname:  LA
Leloaloa
Coordinates: 14°16′06″S170°40′35″W / 14.2682°S 170.6764°W / -14.2682; -170.6764
Country	United States
Territory	American Samoa
County	Maoputasi
Population  (2020)
• Total	365

Leloaloa is a village on Tutuila Island, American Samoa. It is located in Maoputasi County. As of the 2010 U.S. census, the village had a population of 448. ^[1] It is the birthplace of United States Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and of American Samoan House of Representatives member Tapai Alailepule Benjamin Vaivao.

The name of the village, Leloaloa, is derived from the Samoan language and translates into English as “The Long". ^[2]

Demographics

Year	Population [3]
2020	365
2010	448
2000	534
1990	412
1980	414

Notable people

• Uti Petelo, politician
• Tulsi Gabbard, Director of National Intelligence
• Tapai Alailepule Benjamin Vaivao, politician
• Taeao Samuelu Tauanuu, first American Samoan chairman of the Methodist Church of Samoa. ^[4]

References

1. "U.S. Census website". United States Census Bureau . Retrieved February 23, 2020.
2. Churchill, W. (1913). "Geographical Nomenclature of American Samoa". Bulletin of the American Geographical Society, 45(3), page 192. Retrieved on December 6, 2024, from https://doi.org/10.2307/199273.
3. "American Samoa Statistical Yearbook 2016" (PDF). American Samoa Department of Commerce. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2019-02-14. Retrieved 2019-09-10.
4. Sunia, Fofō Iosefa Fiti (2001). Puputoa: Host of Heroes - A record of the history makers in the First Century of American Samoa, 1900-2000. Suva, Fiji: Oceania Printers. Page 155. ISBN 9829036022.