People group profile · PG017396
The Chacobo of Bolivia
The Chacobo of Bolivia, numbering about 1,200 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are a southern Pano people of Bolivia's northern Amazon forced from land near Lake Rogaguado during the early-1900s rubber boom, suffering disease from rubber tappers before first contact in 1953, then granted in 1965 under a tenth of their ancestral land.
They are an indigenous people in the South American Indigenous people cluster of the Latin American and Caribbean Peoples. Their primary religion is Ethnoreligion, and they primarily speak Chácobo.
Fast facts
- Country
- Bolivia
- Population
- 1,200
- Affinity group
- American Peoples
- People cluster
- South American Indigenous
- Primary language
- Chácobo (cao)
- Primary religion
- Ethnoreligion
- 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
Where they live
Gospel status
The Chacobo 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 Chacobo
- 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
Primary language
Chácobo · Pano-Tacanan family
70% speak Chácobo
Gospel resources in Chácobo
- Bible available, published 2010
- JESUS Film not available
- Radio programs not available
- Gospel recordings 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 Chacobo
- 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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