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PEOPLE GROUP PROFILE

The Yaruro of Venezuela

The Yaruro of Venezuela, numbering approximately 8,100 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are a Llanos people of western Venezuela's Apure region, properly called Pume, speaking a language isolate along the Capanaparo, Cinaruco, and Apure rivers, resettled near the Colombian border in 1980 and displaced again by armed-group violence in 2024. They mostly adhere to Animism and Pumé is their primary language.

Photo by Google. (2026). Image generated by Gemini 2.5 Flash: Yaruro

Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Latin American and Caribbean Peoples
Country: Venezuela
People Cluster: South American Indigenous
Primary Language(s): Pumé (yae)
Primary Religion(s): Animism
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: PG016509
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Pray for the Yaruro of Venezuela

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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Animism
Religious Affiliation: Ethnoreligion

90%
%
Animism Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Pumé
Language Family:

83%
%
Pumé Speakers

Media Resources in Pumé:

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Bible Resources in Pumé:

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SPI: No longer Unreached

The Yaruro 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 Yaruro:
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 Yaruro of Venezuela

And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.
readActs 4:12

Pray that those walking in darkness among them will come to know the name by which they must be saved, and call upon Him in faith.

And when they saw it, they made known the saying that had been told them concerning this child.
readLuke 2:17

Pray that the lost will receive the good news of salvation in God's Son, have hearts eager to share it with others, and that all who hear will respond with wonder and faith!

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness.
readJames 1:2-3

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will consider it pure joy when they face trials of many kinds, trusting in God's promise that the testing of their faith produces perseverance.

For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.
readEphesians 6:12

Ask God to give those He sends to cross cultures the discernment they need to recognize the spiritual battle they are fighting. Pray God will protect their faith as they abide in Him.

Yaruro Across Countries (ROP3 - 110992) reported in the following countries:

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1 people group

PhotoPeople Group IDNameCountryPopulation ▼Strategic Progress IndexLanguageReligion
YaruroPG016509YaruroVenezuela8,100No Longer UnreachedPuméAnimism

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