People group profile · PG016466
The Cuiba of Venezuela
The Cuiba of Venezuela, numbering about 650 people, are Unengaged and Unreached. They are a nomadic Guahiban people who call themselves Wamonae, whose hunter-gatherer bands along the Colombia-Venezuela border first encountered Europeans in 1533 during the search for El Dorado, later displaced by ranchers during 1950s civil war violence.
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
- Venezuela
- Population
- 650
- Affinity group
- American Peoples
- People cluster
- South American Indigenous
- Primary language
- Cuiba (cui)
- Primary religion
- Animism
- Strategic Progress Index
- Unengaged and Unreached
- Evangelical
- No Known Evangelicals
- GSEC
- Less than 2% Evangelical, No Recent CP Activity
- Lostness priority
- Frontier Unreached People Group
- Region
- South America, Americas
Where they live
Gospel status
The Cuiba are Unengaged and Unreached, which means fewer than 2% are evangelical Christians, and there has been no reported church planting activity in the past two years. 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 Cuiba
- Pray that God would send workers to this people group
- Begin sowing the gospel and seek out people of peace
- Plant the first churches consistent with evangelical faith and practice
Primary religion
Animism · Ethnoreligion
95% adherents
Primary language
Cuiba · Guahiboan family
100% speak Cuiba
Gospel resources in Cuiba
- Bible available
- 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
- Romans 10:14–15. Ask God to send messengers, so that people can hear, believe and call on the name of the Lord.
- 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.
Cuiba in other countries
The same people (ROP3 102327) is reported in 1 other country.
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