| Official Name: | Alalapadu |
| Pushpin Map: | Suriname |
| Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Suriname |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | Suriname |
| Subdivision Type1: | District |
| Subdivision Name1: | Sipaliwini District |
| Subdivision Type2: | Resort |
| Subdivision Name2: | Coeroeni |
| Leader Title: | Head captain |
| Leader Name: | Sede Itashe |
| Established Title: | Settled |
| Established Date: | 1961 |
| Population As Of: | 2020 |
| Population Total: | 75[1] |
| Population Blank1 Title: | Ethnicities |
| Coordinates: | 2.5206°N -56.3281°W |
Alalapadu is a Tiriyó village in the Sipaliwini District of Suriname. The village was founded by Baptist missionaries next to the Alalapadu Airstrip in order to concentrate the Tiriyó of the area in one central village.
In 1961 the missionary Claude Leavitt accompanied with a group of Wai-Wai Amerindians convinced the chief of the village Panapipa to settle into a modern village. The entire population moved in to what became known as Alalapadu. Up to the 1970s, it was biggest Tiriyó village in Suriname.[2] Between 1976 and 1977, Alalapadu was mostly abandoned in favour of the new settlement of Kwamalasamutu, as the soils surrounding the village became depleted. Alalapadu was never completely abandoned, however, and in 1999, some Tiriyó again permanently settled in the vicinity of the old village. The new village is sometimes known as Alalapadu II. Granman Ashongo had requested its rebuilding.[2]
There is no electricity. The economy is based small-scale farming. There is no school, and children have to go to boarding school in Kwamalasamutu. There is a Baptist church in the village. In 2017, a Brazil nut oil production facility opened in Alalapadu.[3]