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The Murui of Colombia

The Murui of Colombia, numbering approximately 8,100 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are a Murui-Muina branch of the Witoto peoples of the Colombian Amazon whose homeland lies along the Putumayo, Cara-Paraná, and Igara-Paraná river systems and whose identity is rooted in maloca-centered community life and Witotoan traditions. They mostly adhere to Ethnoreligion and Spanish is their primary language.

Photo by Google. (2026). Image generated by Gemini 2.5 Flash: Huitoto, Murui

Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Latin American and Caribbean Peoples
Country: Colombia
People Cluster: South American Indigenous
Primary Language(s): Spanish (spa)
Primary Religion(s): Ethnoreligion
Population: 8,100
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): No Longer Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): 2% or Greater but Less than 5% Evangelical
People Group ID: PG016263
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Pray for the Murui of Colombia

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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Ethnoreligion
Religious Affiliation: Ethnoreligion

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Ethnoreligion Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Spanish
Language Family: Indo-European

100%
%
Spanish Speakers

Media Resources in Spanish:

Films:
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JESUS View Film
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Magdalena View Film
Magdalena View Film
The Savior View Film

5 films

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Bible Resources in Spanish:

Bible Name (Translation) Video Audio Text
1569 Sagradas Escrituras ✓
1602 Reina-Valera Antigua ✓
Biblia de América ✓ ✓ ✓
Dios Habla Hoy ✓
La Biblia ✓
La Palabra de Dios para Todos ✓
La Santa Biblia, Nueva Versión Internacional® ✓
Lenguaje Actual ✓
Reina Valera 1995 ✓
Reina Valera Contemporánea ✓
Reina Valera, Revisada y Corregida (1865) ✓
The Word of God for All - 2000 World Bible Translation Center ✓ ✓
The Word of God for All 2014 ✓ ✓

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SPI: No longer Unreached

The Murui are No Longer Unreached, which means there are more than 2% evangelical Christian populations and there are churches consistent with evangelical faith and practice. There is still more to be done among them.

Next steps for the Murui:
Empower local believers to begin praying for their own people
Continue gospel seed sowing and church planting
Encourage local leaders to being leading church planting strategy and looking for Unreached and Unengaged groups nearby

Pray specifically for the Murui of Colombia

For you, O LORD, are most high over all the earth; you are exalted far above all gods.
readPsalm 97:9

Pray that those who don't yet know Him will recognize the Lord as the Most High and turn from spiritual darkness to worship Him above all else.

Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.
readIsaiah 43:19

Pray that the lost will see the new thing God can do in their lives and trust in His plan and purpose for them.

But when the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared, he saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit.
readTitus 3:4-5

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ and might struggle with temptation to trust in their own works, they will remember that it is only because of God's mercy that they have been saved.

There is nothing outside a person that by going into him can defile him, but the things that come out of a person are what defile him.
readMark 7:15

Pray for Christians to take any opportunity to share the hope of Jesus with lost people here, praying they will be wise like Jesus as they share the truth about what can defile people and what can make them clean.

Murui Huitoto Across Countries (ROP3 - 106931) reported in the following countries:

Strategic Progress Index

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2 people groups

Photo People Group ID Name Country Population ▼ Strategic Progress Index Language Religion
Murui PG016263 Murui Colombia 8,100 No Longer Unreached Spanish Ethnoreligion
Murui PG017562 Murui Peru 1,000 No Longer Unreached Spanish Ethnoreligion

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