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PEOPLE GROUP PROFILE

The Paya-Pech of Honduras

The Paya-Pech of Honduras, numbering approximately 6,300 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are descendants of Chibchan-speaking migrants from South America who settled Honduras roughly three thousand years ago, later withdrawing into the Olancho and Colon highlands under pressure from Miskito raids. They mostly adhere to Ethnoreligion and Pech is their primary language.

Photo by Google. (2026). Image generated by Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite: Paya-Pech

Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Latin American and Caribbean Peoples
Country: Honduras
People Cluster: Central American Indigenous
Primary Language(s): Pech (pay)
Primary Religion(s): Ethnoreligion
Population: 6,300
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): No Longer Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): 5% or Greater but Less than 10% Evangelical
People Group ID: PG024791
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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Ethnoreligion
Religious Affiliation: Ethnoreligion

90%
%
Ethnoreligion Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Pech
Language Family: Chibchan

30%
%
Pech Speakers

Media Resources in Pech:

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Bible Resources in Pech:

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SPI: No longer Unreached

The Paya-Pech 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 Paya-Pech:
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 Paya-Pech of Honduras

How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching?
readRomans 10:14

Pray that those who haven't heard will hear the Word of Christ and believe in Him, calling upon the name of the Lord to be saved.

The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.
read2 Peter 3:9

Pray that the lost will not perish but come to repentance and that God's patience and long-suffering will lead them to salvation.

For if we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins.
readHebrews 10:26

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will live with reverence for God and not deliberately keep sinning after they receive the knowledge of the truth.

The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent.
readActs 17:30

Pray that those God sends to cross cultures will boldly and lovingly declare that God commands all people everywhere to repent.

Paya Across Countries (ROP3 - 107958) reported in the following countries:

Strategic Progress Index
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1 people group

PhotoPeople Group IDNameCountryPopulationStrategic Progress IndexLanguage ▲Religion
Paya-PechPG024791Paya-PechHonduras6,300No Longer UnreachedPechEthnoreligion

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