People group profile · PG016276
The Rio Arauca Guajibo of Colombia
The Rio Arauca Guajibo of Colombia, numbering about 150 people, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are a very small Indigenous subgroup of the larger Guahibo (Sikuani/Hiwi/Jiwi) people who live along the Arauca River on the Colombia–Venezuela border, especially in Venezuela’s Apure region and adjacent parts of Colombia.
They are an indigenous people in the South American Indigenous people cluster of the Latin American and Caribbean Peoples. Their primary religion is Ethnoreligion, and they primarily speak Playero.
Fast facts
- Country
- Colombia
- Population
- 150
- Affinity group
- American Peoples
- People cluster
- South American Indigenous
- Primary language
- Playero (gob)
- Primary religion
- Ethnoreligion
- Strategic Progress Index ?
- Engaged yet Unreached
- Evangelical
- No Known Evangelicals
- GSEC ?
- Less than 2% Evangelical, No Recent CP Activity
- Lostness priority ?
- Frontier Unreached People Group
- Also known as
- Playero, Guahibo, Sikuani
- Region
- South America, Americas
- Location
- Arauca department: Venezuela border, Arauca river banks from Arauca to Gaviotas Island
Where they live
Gospel status
The Rio Arauca Guajibo are Engaged yet Unreached, which means fewer than 2% are evangelical Christians, but there are sustained efforts to establish self-sustaining churches consistent with evangelical faith and practice. In GSEC terms, this people group is less than 2% evangelical, some evangelical resources are available, but there has been no active church planting among them within the past two years.
- Congregations exist No
- Church planting in the last two years No Churches Planted
Next steps for the Rio Arauca Guajibo
- Continue prayer and fasting for this group
- Continue gospel seed sowing and church planting among this group
- Begin training up local leaders to lead and develop strategies to reach their own people
Primary religion
60% adherents
Primary language
Playero · Guahiboan family
76% speak Playero
Gospel resources in Playero
- Bible not available
- JESUS Film not available
- Radio programs not available
- Gospel recordings not available
- Audio resources not available
- Bible stories not available
Find more at the JESUS Film Project, Bible.com and Faith Comes by Hearing.
Pray for the Rio Arauca Guajibo
- Matthew 9:37–38. Ask the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest field.
- 2 Timothy 2:2. Pray for faithful local leaders who will teach others, so that the church multiplies.
- Ephesians 5:8. Pray that those walking in darkness will turn to the light and live as children of light.
- Romans 10:14–15. Ask God to send messengers, so that people can hear, believe and call on the name of the Lord.
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