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The Wapixana of Guyana

The Wapixana of Guyana, numbering approximately 6,400 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are an Arawak people of Guyana's southern Rupununi savannas between the Takutu and Kwitaro rivers, driven south from the Rio Branco basin by the Macushi under European pressure before being conscripted to labor at a Portuguese fort by the late 1700s. They mostly adhere to Ethnoreligion and Wapishana is their primary language.

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

Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Latin American and Caribbean Peoples
Country: Guyana
People Cluster: South American Indigenous
Primary Language(s): Wapishana (wap)
Primary Religion(s): Ethnoreligion
Population: 6,400
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): No Longer Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): 10% or Greater Evangelical
People Group ID: PG016372
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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Ethnoreligion
Religious Affiliation: Ethnoreligion

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%
Ethnoreligion Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Wapishana
Language Family: Arawakan

58%
%
Wapishana Speakers

Media Resources in Wapishana:

Films:

No film resources are listed for this language.

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Bible Resources in Wapishana:

Bible Name (Translation)VideoAudioText
Suriname Bible Society, 2012 & Guyana Bible Society, 2012✓✓✓

1 entry

Provided by Faith Comes by Hearing

Or check out the Wapishana bible at Bible.com

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SPI: No longer Unreached

The Wapixana 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 Wapixana:
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 Wapixana of Guyana

But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation, into a snare, into many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction.
read1 Timothy 6:9

Pray for those, rich and poor, who have put their trust in worldly things, and ask that they will be honest with themselves, acknowledge their need for God and turn to Him.

After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands, and crying out with a loud voice, ‘Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb’
readRevelation 7:9-10

Pray that many people will receive the gospel and will be part of the great multitude from every nation, tribe, people, and language, clothed in white robes and palm branches, proclaiming salvation belongs to our God.

And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also.
readJohn 14:3

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will have hope in trials because they know that Jesus will one day take them to be with Him forever.

For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
read2 Corinthians 5:21

Pray that Christians will cross cultures and share the hope of Christ, and that many will trust the One who took their sins and offers them His righteousness.

Wapixana Across Countries (ROP3 - 110682) reported in the following countries:

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2 people groups

PhotoPeople Group IDNameCountryPopulation ▼Strategic Progress IndexLanguageReligion
WapixanaPG017180WapixanaBrazil7,800No Longer UnreachedWapishanaEthnoreligion
WapixanaPG016372WapixanaGuyana6,400No Longer UnreachedWapishanaEthnoreligion

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