Pago Pago travel guide

Pago Pago (by native Samoan-speakers and sometimes by others) is the capital town of American Samoa. It is actually a village that is often mistaken to be a city (as in a capital or port city) of this south Pacific territory of the United States of America. Its 1990 population was 10,640. The village is located on Pago Pago Harbor, in the island of Tutuila. Tourism, entertainment, food, and tuna canning are the primary industries here. From 1878 to 1951, this was a coaling and repair station for the U.S. Navy. Pago Pago is one of the several villages along the shore of the harbor and is located at the very back (inside) of the embayment. However, because the name Pago Pago is associated with the harbor itself — the only significant port of call in American Samoa — Pago Pago is now generally applied not only to the village itself, but to the whole harbor area and the whole town that encompasses the adjacent village of Fagatogo - the seat of the local territorial government. It is in this sense that Pago Pago becomes the de facto capital town of American Samoa. (...) more....