People group profile · PG016243
The Cuiba of Colombia
The Cuiba of Colombia, numbering about 750 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are an Indigenous Guahiboan people of the Colombian Orinoquía whose traditional territory spans the Casanare, Meta, and Vichada river plains and whose culture developed around highly mobile hunter-gatherer lifeways.
They are an indigenous people in the South American Indigenous people cluster of the Latin American and Caribbean Peoples. Their primary religion is Animism, and they primarily speak Cuiba.
Fast facts
- Country
- Colombia
- Population
- 750
- Affinity group
- American Peoples
- People cluster
- South American Indigenous
- Primary language
- Cuiba (cui)
- Primary religion
- Animism
- Strategic Progress Index
- No Longer Unreached
- Evangelical
- 15% or Greater but Less than 20%
- GSEC
- 10% or Greater Evangelical
- Lostness priority
- Moderately Reached People Group
- Region
- South America, Americas
- Location
- Arauca department: Cravo Norte municipality; Casanare department: Betania, El Merey, Esmeralda, Mochuelo, San José de Ariporo, and Santa María on Capanaparo river and tributaries; Vichada department: Meta river south bank
Where they live
Gospel status
The Cuiba are No Longer Unreached, which means 2% or more are evangelical Christians. In GSEC terms, this people group is greater than or equal to 10% evangelical.
- Congregations exist Yes
- Church planting in the last two years No Churches Planted
Next steps for the Cuiba
- Pray for the churches among this group to grow in faithfulness and maturity
- Equip believers to reach the unreached peoples around them
- Send out laborers from this people to the nations
Primary religion
Animism · Ethnoreligion
90% adherents
Primary language
Cuiba · Guahiboan family
100% speak Cuiba
Gospel resources in Cuiba
- Bible available, published 2022
- JESUS Film not available
- Radio programs not available
- Gospel recordings available
- Audio resources available
- Bible stories not available
Bibles
- 1987 Wycliffe Bible Translators, Inc · audio, text
Find more at the JESUS Film Project, Bible.com and Faith Comes by Hearing.
Pray for the Cuiba
- Psalm 27:1. Pray that new believers will be strengthened in the face of persecution, with the Lord as their stronghold.
- Romans 12:4–5. Pray that believers from many cultures will work together as one body so that the church is built up.
- Revelation 7:9. Pray for the day when people from this group stand before the throne with every nation, tribe, people and language.
- John 17:3. Pray that many will come to know the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom he has sent.
Cuiba in other countries
The same people (ROP3 102327) is reported in 1 other country.
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