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Mapu

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Mapu may refer to:

  • The Popular Unitary Action Movement or MAPU (Spanish: Movimiento de Acción Popular Unitario), a small leftist political party in Chile
  • The Horse stance, a martial arts position, is known as Mapu in the Chinese language
  • Mapu a Vaea or Whistle of the Noble are natural blowholes on the island of Tongatapu
  • Medical Assessment and Planning Unit - name used in Australia and New Zealand equivalent to Acute assessment unit used in other countries
  • Mapu (town) (马铺镇), in Luyi County, Henan
  • Pluriarc, a string instrument from West Africa, also called a mapu.

People named Mapu:

  • Abraham Mapu (1808-1867), a Lithuanian-born Hebrew novelist of the Haskalah ("enlightenment") movement
  • Mapu Taia or Mapu Tangatatutai Taia, OBE, (born 1939), is a Cook Islands politician and Speaker of the Cook Islands Parliament
  • Marte Mapu (born 1999), American football player
  • a shortened version (nickname) of the Hawaiian language name Mapuana, which means: heavenly fragrance or sending forth fragrance