People group profile · PG016283
The Tanimuca-Retuama of Colombia
The Tanimuca-Retuama of Colombia, numbering about 600 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are an Indigenous Tucanoan people of the Apaporis, Mirití-Paraná, Guacayá, and Popeyacá river regions of the Colombian Amazon organized through exogamous patrilineal divisions known as the Tanimuca and Retuama (Letuama).
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 Tanimuca-Retuarã.
Fast facts
- Country
- Colombia
- Population
- 600
- Affinity group
- American Peoples
- People cluster
- South American Indigenous
- Primary language
- Tanimuca-Retuarã (tnc)
- Primary religion
- Animism
- Strategic Progress Index
- No Longer Unreached
- Evangelical
- 5% or Greater but Less than 10%
- GSEC
- 5% or Greater but Less than 10% Evangelical
- Lostness priority
- Marginally Reached People Group
- Region
- South America, Americas
- Location
- Amazonas and Vaupés departments: Guacayá and Oiyaka rivers (tributaries of the Mirití-Paraná), Apaporis, Mirití-Paraná, and Popeyaca rivers near mouth of Pira river below Popeyaca
Where they live
Gospel status
The Tanimuca-Retuama are No Longer Unreached, which means 2% or more are evangelical Christians. In GSEC terms, this people group is greater than or equal to 5% evangelical.
- Congregations exist Yes
- Church planting in the last two years No Churches Planted
Next steps for the Tanimuca-Retuama
- 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
70% adherents
Primary language
Tanimuca-Retuarã · Tucanoan family
100% speak Tanimuca-Retuarã
Gospel resources in Tanimuca-Retuarã
- Bible available, published 2019
- JESUS Film available
- Radio programs not available
- Gospel recordings available
- Audio resources available
- Bible stories not available
Films
- JESUS (Letuama-Tanimuca)
Bibles
- 2013 Wycliffe Bible Translators Inc. · audio, text
Find more at the JESUS Film Project, Bible.com and Faith Comes by Hearing.
Pray for the Tanimuca-Retuama
- 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.
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