People group profile · PG016510
The Yuana of Venezuela
The Yuana of Venezuela, numbering about 1,400 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are a small Amazonian people properly called Hodi, also known by the exonym Yuana, isolated until the 1960s and still speaking an unclassified language, living as semi-nomadic hunter-gatherer bands of about 15 people.
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 Yuwana.
Fast facts
- Country
- Venezuela
- Population
- 1,400
- Affinity group
- American Peoples
- People cluster
- South American Indigenous
- Primary language
- Yuwana (yau)
- 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
- Minimally Reached People Group
- Region
- South America, Americas
- Location
- Amazonas: isolated groups on Iguana, an Asita river tributary, and on the Parucito, a Manapiare river tributary; Bolívar: basin of the upper Kayamá river, a Cuchivero river tributary; small cluster of at least three local groups on left bank
Where they live
Gospel status
The Yuana 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 Yes
- Church planting in the last two years No Churches Planted
Next steps for the Yuana
- 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
Gospel resources in Yuwana
- Bible available, published 1999
- JESUS Film not available
- Radio programs not available
- Gospel recordings not available
- Audio resources available
- Bible stories not available
Find more at the JESUS Film Project, Bible.com and Faith Comes by Hearing.
Pray for the Yuana
- 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.
- Matthew 9:37–38. Ask the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest field.
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