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The Tajumulco Mam of Guatemala

The Tajumulco Mam of Guatemala, numbering approximately 69,500 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are a Mam Maya people of Guatemala's San Marcos department who revere the towering Tajumulco volcano, whose Mam name means place where the dead are, as sacred alongside the neighboring Tacana volcano. They mostly adhere to Ethnoreligion and Mam is their primary language.

Photo by Google. (2026). Image generated by Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite: Mam, Tajumulco

Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Latin American and Caribbean Peoples
Country: Guatemala
People Cluster: Maya
Primary Language(s): Mam (mam)
Primary Religion(s): Ethnoreligion
Population: 69,500
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): No Longer Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): 5% or Greater but Less than 10% Evangelical
People Group ID: PG024731
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Pray for the Tajumulco Mam of Guatemala

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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Ethnoreligion
Religious Affiliation: Ethnoreligion

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%
Ethnoreligion Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Mam
Language Family: Mayan

70%
%
Mam Speakers

Media Resources in Mam:

Films:
TitleLink
JESUSView Film
JESUSView Film

2 films

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Bible Resources in Mam:

Bible Name (Translation)VideoAudioText
2008 Wycliffe Bible Translators Inc.✓✓
Asociación Educativa y Cultural Maya✓✓
1993 Bible Society of Guatemala✓
1980 Bible Society of Guatemala✓
2009 Bible Society of Guatemala✓
2000 Wycliffe Bible Translators✓✓✓

6 entries

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Or check out the Mam bible at Bible.com

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SPI: No longer Unreached

The Tajumulco Mam 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 Tajumulco Mam:
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 Tajumulco Mam of Guatemala

Just so, I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance.
readLuke 15:7

Pray that God will convict the lost of their sin, give them an urgency to run to Him for forgiveness, and feel His welcoming arms around them when they turn to Him.

Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed in the Lord, together with his entire household. And many of the Corinthians hearing Paul believed and were baptized.
readActs 18:8

Pray that rulers and leaders will access the gospel, respond in faith, and be baptized, uniting with Christ and His Church, and influence others to follow Him.

Those who look to him are radiant, and their faces shall never be ashamed.
readPsalm 34:5

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will see themselves as God sees them, with radiant faces and hearts that have been cleansed of all shame.

I do it all for the sake of the gospel, that I may share with them in its blessing.
read1 Corinthians 9:23

Ask God to give believers a deep desire to share the gospel with those who don't know the truth about God's redemption plan, and to provide them with opportunities to do so cross-culturally.

Mam, Tajumulco Across Countries (ROP3 - 109736) reported in the following countries:

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1 people group

PhotoPeople Group IDNameCountryPopulationStrategic Progress Index ▼LanguageReligion
Tajumulco MamPG024731Tajumulco MamGuatemala69,500No Longer UnreachedMamEthnoreligion

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