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PEOPLE GROUP PROFILE

The Ticuna of Brazil

The Ticuna of Brazil, numbering approximately 50,000 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are the most populous Indigenous people of Brazilian Amazonia, present for at least 2,000 years before European arrival, expanding after neighboring Omagua and Mayoruna populations were decimated by wars and epidemics, then relocated during the rubber boom. They mostly adhere to Animism and Ticuna is their primary language.

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

Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Latin American and Caribbean Peoples
Country: Brazil
People Cluster: South American Indigenous
Primary Language(s): Ticuna (tca)
Primary Religion(s): Animism
Population: 50,000
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): No Longer Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): 5% or Greater but Less than 10% Evangelical
People Group ID: PG017129
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Pray for the Ticuna of Brazil

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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Animism
Religious Affiliation: Ethnoreligion

60%
%
Animism Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Ticuna
Language Family: Ticuna-Yuri

100%
%
Ticuna Speakers

Media Resources in Ticuna:

Films:
TitleLink
JESUSView Film

1 film

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Bible Resources in Ticuna:

Bible Name (Translation)VideoAudioText
1986 Bible League International✓✓✓

1 entry

Provided by Faith Comes by Hearing

Or check out the Ticuna bible at Bible.com

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SPI: No longer Unreached

The Ticuna 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 Ticuna:
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 Ticuna of Brazil

For the Son of Man came to seek and save the lost.
readLuke 19:10

Pray that those who are lost will respond to the One who came to seek and save the lost, and experience the joy of being found.

If I ascend to heaven, you are there. If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there!
readPsalm 139:8

Pray that the lost will recognize God's presence with them wherever they go, put their faith in Christ, and seek to live in a way that honors and glorifies Him.

But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved.
readEphesians 2:4-5

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will remember God's mercy and grace and experience joy as they walk in new life with Christ.

The next day again John was standing with two of his disciples, and he looked at Jesus as he walked by and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God!”
readJohn 1:35-36

Pray for those God sends to cross cultures to share the gospel, that they might faithfully share the good news of the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world.

Ticuna Across Countries (ROP3 - 110039) reported in the following countries:

Strategic Progress Index
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3 people groups

PhotoPeople Group IDNameCountryPopulationStrategic Progress Index ▲LanguageReligion
TicunaPG016286TicunaColombia7,400No Longer UnreachedTicunaFolk Catholicism
TicunaPG017129TicunaBrazil50,000No Longer UnreachedTicunaAnimism
TicunaPG017598TicunaPeru7,000No Longer UnreachedTicunaEthnoreligion

To download a comprehensive people group list in spreadsheet form, visit our Research Data page.

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