The Akawaio of Venezuela, numbering approximately 900 people, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are a Cariban people descended from the Karinya, historically dominant traders of Guyana's Mazaruni and Cuyuni river valleys, whose Venezuelan communities entered Spanish mission life before dispersing eastward after a mission's destruction in 1817. They mostly adhere to Ethnoreligion and Akawaio is their primary language.