title: Mapu
text: # Mapu
  
  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
  