People group profile · PG017568
The Ocaina of Peru
The Ocaina of Peru, numbering about 100 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are a Witotoan people of the Putumayo and Caqueta river basins in Peru and Colombia, historically a hinterland people living apart from major waterways, nearly wiped out alongside the Huitoto and Bora during the Putumayo rubber boom genocide.
They are an indigenous people in the Amazon people cluster of the Latin American and Caribbean Peoples. Their primary religion is Ethnoreligion, and they primarily speak Ocaina.
Fast facts
- Country
- Peru
- Population
- 100
- Affinity group
- American Peoples
- People cluster
- Amazon
- Primary language
- Ocaina (oca)
- Primary religion
- Ethnoreligion
- Strategic Progress Index
- No Longer Unreached
- Evangelical
- 20% or Greater but Less than 30%
- GSEC
- 10% or Greater Evangelical
- Lostness priority
- Significantly Reached People Group
- Region
- South America, Americas
- Location
- Loreto region: Ampuyacu, Putumayo, and Yaguasyacu rivers
Where they live
Gospel status
The Ocaina are No Longer Unreached, which means 2% or more are evangelical Christians. In GSEC terms, this people group is greater than or equal to 10% evangelical.
- Congregations exist Yes
- Church planting in the last two years No Churches Planted
Next steps for the Ocaina
- 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
Ocaina · Huitotoan family
50% speak Ocaina
Gospel resources in Ocaina
- Bible available, published 1972
- 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 Ocaina
- 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.
- 2 Timothy 2:2. Pray for faithful local leaders who will teach others, so that the church multiplies.
Ocaina in other countries
The same people (ROP3 107586) is reported in 1 other country.
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