People group profile · PG017364
The Santiago de Estero Quichua of Argentina
The Santiago de Estero Quichua of Argentina, numbering about 60,000 people, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are descendants of Quechua-speaking yanaconas brought from Peru and Chile by Spanish colonists who founded Santiago del Estero, Argentina in 1553, in an area earlier home to the Tonocote and Sanavirona peoples.
They are an indigenous people in the Quechua people cluster of the Latin American and Caribbean Peoples. Their primary religion is Ethnoreligion, and they primarily speak Santiago del Estero Quichua.
Fast facts
- Country
- Argentina
- Population
- 60,000
- Affinity group
- American Peoples
- People cluster
- Quechua
- Primary language
- Santiago del Estero Quichua (qus)
- Primary religion
- Ethnoreligion
- Strategic Progress Index
- Engaged yet Unreached
- Evangelical
- Less than 2%
- GSEC
- Less than 2% Evangelical, No Recent CP Activity
- Lostness priority
- Expanding Unreached People Group
- Region
- South America, Americas
- Location
- Chaco province; Santiago del Estero province: Figueroa, Moreno, Robles, Sarmiento, Brigadier J. F. Ibarra, San Martín, Silipica, Loreto, Atamisqui, Avellaneda, Salavina, Quebrachos, Mitre, and Aguirre departments; perhaps Buenos Aires and Salta provinces
Where they live
Gospel status
The Santiago de Estero Quichua 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 Yes
- Church planting in the last two years No Churches Planted
Next steps for the Santiago de Estero Quichua
- 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
85% adherents
Primary language
Santiago del Estero Quichua · Quechuan family
50% speak Santiago del Estero Quichua
Gospel resources in Santiago del Estero Quichua
- Bible available, published 1990
- JESUS Film not available
- Radio programs not available
- Gospel recordings 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 Santiago de Estero Quichua
- 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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