People group profile · PG024859
The Wounaan of Panama
The Wounaan of Panama, numbering about 8,900 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are a Choco-language people who migrated from Colombia's Choco region into Panama's Darien rainforest by the late 1800s, sharing the Comarca Embera-Wounaan territory since 1983 while maintaining a distinct identity from the neighboring Embera.
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 Woun Meu.
Fast facts
- Country
- Panama
- Population
- 8,900
- Affinity group
- American Peoples
- People cluster
- South American Indigenous
- Primary language
- Woun Meu (noa)
- 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
- Moderately Reached People Group
- Region
- Central America, Americas
Where they live
Gospel status
The Wounaan 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 Wounaan
- 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
Woun Meu · Chocoan family
100% speak Woun Meu
Gospel resources in Woun Meu
- Bible available
- JESUS Film available
- Radio programs not available
- Gospel recordings available
- Audio resources available
- Bible stories not available
Films
- JESUS (Waumeo)
Bibles
- 2005 Wycliffe Bible Translators Inc. · video, audio, text
Find more at the JESUS Film Project, Bible.com and Faith Comes by Hearing.
Pray for the Wounaan
- Psalm 27:1. Pray that new believers will be strengthened in the face of persecution, with the Lord as their stronghold.
- Romans 12:4–5. Pray that believers from many cultures will work together as one body so that the church is built up.
- Revelation 7:9. Pray for the day when people from this group stand before the throne with every nation, tribe, people and language.
- John 17:3. Pray that many will come to know the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom he has sent.
Wounaan in other countries
The same people (ROP3 110724) is reported in 1 other country.
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