Matbuw

Matibuw (also recorded as Matbuw, Maatbuw, or Matbuww) is a village or village site in Rull municipality on Marbaa' in Yap State of the Federated States of Micronesia.

Caste and class

Matibuw is classified within the Yapese system of ranked villages associated with Tabinaw as Caste III, Class 8 (III–8).

This places Matibuw among the lower-ranking villages within the traditional Yapese political hierarchy.

Population and settlement

In Jane Hainline Underwood’s demographic survey of Yap during the 1960s, Matibuw was recorded with no resident population.

The village formed part of a broader pattern of depopulation affecting a number of smaller and lower-ranking settlements on Yap during the mid-twentieth century as residents increasingly concentrated near administrative centers, roads, and larger coastal population areas.