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PEOPLE GROUP PROFILE

The Apurimac Quechua of Peru

The Apurimac Quechua of Peru, numbering approximately 158,000 people, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are described as an ethnolinguistic community of Peru They are an Indigenous people, with Quechua / Quichua as their ethnic/kinship group and are in the Quechua people cluster of the Latin American and Caribbean Peoples. Their primary religion is Ethnoreligion. They primarily speak Eastern Apurímac Quechua.

Photo by Google. (2026). Image generated by Gemini 2.5 Flash: Quechua, Apurimac

Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Latin American and Caribbean Peoples
Country: Peru
People Cluster: Quechua
Primary Language(s): Eastern Apurímac Quechua (qve)
Primary Religion(s): Ethnoreligion
Population: 158,000
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): Engaged yet Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): Less than 2% Evangelical, No Recent CP Activity
People Group ID: PG017498
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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Ethnoreligion
Religious Affiliation: Ethnoreligion

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%
Ethnoreligion Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Eastern Apurímac Quechua
Language Family: Quechuan

50%
%
Quechua, Eastern Apurímac Speakers

Media Resources in Eastern Apurímac Quechua:

Films:
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JESUSView Film

1 film

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Bible Resources in Eastern Apurímac Quechua:

Bible Name (Translation)VideoAudioText
2013 Wycliffe✓✓✓

1 entry

Provided by Faith Comes by Hearing

Or check out the Eastern Apurímac Quechua bible at Bible.com

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SPI: Unreached yet Engaged

The Apurimac Quechua are Engaged yet Unreached, which means there are less than 2% evangelical Christian populations but there are sustained efforts at establishing self-sustaining churches consistent with evangelical faith and practice.

Next steps for the Apurimac Quechua:
Continue prayer and fasting for this group
Continue gospel seed sowing and church planting among this group
Begin training up local leaders to lead and develop strategies to reach their own people

Pray specifically for the Apurimac Quechua of Peru

Sing for joy, O heavens, and exult, O earth; break forth, O mountains, into singing! For the LORD has comforted his people and will have compassion on his afflicted.
readIsaiah 49:13

Thank the Lord for the people here and ask that His gospel will flow through this land to bring hope to those who are afflicted by the guilt of sin.

And this gospel of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.
readMatthew 24:14

Pray that the gospel of God's kingdom will reach more people and that they will respond in faith, becoming disciples of Jesus Christ.

For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I among them.
readMatthew 18:20

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will be encouraged as they remember that Jesus is with them when they gather in His name.

But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, though it was not I, but the grace of God that is with me. Whether then it was I or they, so we preach and so you believed.
read1 Corinthians 15:10–11

Pray that God's people will preach the message of Jesus' death and resurrection and that it will spread among the lost through the selfless witness of believers.

Quechua, Apurimac Across Countries (ROP3 - 100421) reported in the following countries:

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1 people group

PhotoPeople Group ID ▼NameCountryPopulationStrategic Progress IndexLanguageReligion
Apurimac QuechuaPG017498Apurimac QuechuaPeru158,000Engaged yet UnreachedEastern Apurímac QuechuaEthnoreligion

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