# Falevai

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**Falevai** is a settlement in the [Vava'u](/source/Vava'u) islands in [Tonga](/source/Tonga).[1] The name Falevai, if translated into [English](/source/English_language) means "water house." The name was given because of how the seas and the oceans surrounding the houses. Falevai's most famous names are lafa 'i tua and kuli fe kai.[2] The settlement is also part of a 2.29 km2 Special Management Conservation Area.[3] In 2014, there was a return of the traditional art of [tapa-making](/source/Tapa_cloth) in the village after decades of it being lost.[4]

## See also

- [List of cities in Tonga](/source/List_of_cities_in_Tonga)

## References

1. ["Falevai, Vava'u, Tonga"](https://www.mindat.org/feature-4032701.html). *[Mindat.org](/source/Mindat.org)*. Retrieved 11 March 2020.

1. Gifford, Edward Winslow (1974). *Tongan Place Names*. Periodicals Service Company. ISBN 0-527-02109-1.

1. ["Falevai in Tonga"](https://www.protectedplanet.net/315554). *Protected Planet*. Retrieved 11 March 2020.

1. Vui-Talitu, Sara (6 April 2018). ["Rekindling a lost Tongan art"](https://www.rnz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/354259/rekindling-a-lost-tongan-art). *[RNZ](/source/RNZ)*. Retrieved 11 March 2020.

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