People group profile · PG017466
The Tsachila of Ecuador
The Tsachila of Ecuador, numbering about 3,300 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are an Indigenous nation of Ecuador's western lowlands known as Colorados for dyeing hair and skin red with achiote, formed when revolt survivors against Jesuit missions fled into the jungle and merged with the Yumbo, still led by a shaman called a pone.
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 Colorado.
Fast facts
- Country
- Ecuador
- Population
- 3,300
- Affinity group
- American Peoples
- People cluster
- South American Indigenous
- Primary language
- Colorado (cof)
- 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
- Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas province: provincial capital area
Where they live
Gospel status
The Tsachila 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 Concentrated Church Planting
Next steps for the Tsachila
- 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
60% adherents
Primary language
Colorado · Barbacoan family
65% speak Colorado
Gospel resources in Colorado
- Bible available, published 2015
- JESUS Film not available
- Radio programs not available
- Gospel recordings available
- Audio resources available
- Bible stories not available
Bibles
- 1990 Wycliffe Bible Translators · audio, text
Find more at the JESUS Film Project, Bible.com and Faith Comes by Hearing.
Pray for the Tsachila
- 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.
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