The Northern Conchucos Ancash Quechua of Peru

The Northern Conchucos Ancash Quechua of Peru, numbering approximately 330,000 people, are Unengaged and Unreached. They are a Quechua I-speaking people of the Conchucos valley in Peru's Ancash region, descended from pre-Inca Andean populations whose older, more diversified branch of Quechua predates the Inca-era Cuzco variety. They mostly adhere to Ethnoreligion and Northern Conchucos Ancash Quechua is their primary language.

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Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Latin American and Caribbean Peoples
Country: Peru
People Cluster: Quechua
Primary Language(s): Northern Conchucos Ancash Quechua (qxn)
Primary Religion(s): Ethnoreligion
Population: 330,000
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): Unengaged and Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): Less than 2% Evangelical, No Recent CP Activity
People Group ID: PG017526
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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Ethnoreligion
Religious Affiliation: Ethnoreligion

70%
%
Ethnoreligion Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Northern Conchucos Ancash Quechua
Language Family: Quechuan

100%
%
Quechua, Northern Conchucos Speakers

Media Resources in Northern Conchucos Ancash Quechua:

Films:
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Bible Resources in Northern Conchucos Ancash Quechua:

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Unengaged and Unreached

Strategic Priority Index (SPI): Unengaged and Unreached (SPI: 0), which means there are less than 2% evangelical Christian populations among which there are no known efforts focused on establishing self-sustaining churches consistent with evangelical faith and practice.
Lostness Priority Index (LPI): Expanding Unreached People Group, (LPI: 2), 0.5% or Greater but Less than 2% Evangelical.
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): Less than 2% Evangelical, No Recent CP Activity (GSEC: 1), this people group is less than 2% evangelical, some evangelical resources are available, but there has been no active church planting among them within the past two years

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readMark 14:23-24

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He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.
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Quechua, Northern Conchucos Ancash Across Countries (ROP3 - 102279) reported in the following countries:

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