People group profile · PG016285
The Tatuyo of Colombia
The Tatuyo of Colombia, numbering about 350 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are an Eastern Tucanoan Indigenous people of the Pira-Paraná and upper Papurí river region of Vaupés whose identity is rooted in patrilineal exogamous clans, communal maloca life, and a shared ancestral migration tradition.
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 Tatuyo.
Fast facts
- Country
- Colombia
- Population
- 350
- Affinity group
- American Peoples
- People cluster
- South American Indigenous
- Primary language
- Tatuyo (tav)
- Primary religion
- Animism
- Strategic Progress Index
- No Longer Unreached
- Evangelical
- 2% or Greater but Less than 5%
- GSEC
- 2% or Greater but Less than 5% Evangelical
- Lostness priority
- Marginally Reached People Group
- Region
- South America, Americas
- Location
- Vaupés department: Pira-Paraná headwaters and upper Papurí
Where they live
Gospel status
The Tatuyo are No Longer Unreached, which means 2% or more are evangelical Christians. In GSEC terms, this people group is greater than or equal to 2% evangelical.
- Congregations exist No
- Church planting in the last two years No Churches Planted
Next steps for the Tatuyo
- 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
80% adherents
Primary language
Tatuyo · Tucanoan family
100% speak Tatuyo
Gospel resources in Tatuyo
- Bible available, published 2019
- JESUS Film not available
- Radio programs not available
- Gospel recordings available
- Audio resources available
- Bible stories not available
Bibles
- 2009 Wycliffe Bible Translators Inc. · video, audio, text
Find more at the JESUS Film Project, Bible.com and Faith Comes by Hearing.
Pray for the Tatuyo
- 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.
- Psalm 27:1. Pray that new believers will be strengthened in the face of persecution, with the Lord as their stronghold.
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