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PEOPLE GROUP PROFILE

The San Pedro Quiatoni Zapotec of Mexico

The San Pedro Quiatoni Zapotec of Mexico, numbering approximately 13,500 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are an Indigenous people of southern Mexico, primarily concentrated in the state of Oaxaca, with a long history of cultural continuity from pre-Columbian times to the present. They mostly adhere to Folk Catholicism and San Pedro Quiatoni Zapotec is their primary language.

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Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Latin American and Caribbean Peoples
Country: Mexico
People Cluster: Zapotec
Primary Language(s): San Pedro Quiatoni Zapotec (zpf)
Primary Religion(s): Folk Catholicism
Population: 13,500
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): No Longer Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): 5% or Greater but Less than 10% Evangelical
People Group ID: PG039183
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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Folk Catholicism
Religious Affiliation: Christianity

87%
%
Folk Catholicism Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: San Pedro Quiatoni Zapotec
Language Family: Otomanguean

93%
%
Zapotec, San Pedro Quiatoni Speakers

Media Resources in San Pedro Quiatoni Zapotec:

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Bible Resources in San Pedro Quiatoni Zapotec:

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SPI: No longer Unreached

The San Pedro Quiatoni Zapotec 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 San Pedro Quiatoni Zapotec:
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 San Pedro Quiatoni Zapotec of Mexico

Truly, I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child shall not enter it.
readMark 10:15

Pray for those who might be trapped in pride, that God will humble them and give them a childlike faith and complete dependence on Him through faith in Christ.

The mountains rose, the valleys sank down to the place that you appointed for them.
readPsalm 104:8

Pray that they will see the hand of God in the beauty and order of the natural world, and that they will worship Him as the Creator and Sustainer of all things.

You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you.
readIsaiah 26:3

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, the Lord will keep them in perfect peace as they trust in Him.

And he went away and began to proclaim in the Decapolis how much Jesus had done for him, and everyone marveled.
readMark 5:20

Pray that God will bring people who appear beyond hope to faith in Jesus and that they will then go and tell others of the marvelous things He has done.

Zapotec, San Pedro Quiatoni Across Countries (ROP3 - 111151) reported in the following countries:

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1 people group

PhotoPeople Group IDNameCountryPopulation ▼Strategic Progress IndexLanguageReligion
San Pedro Quiatoni ZapotecPG039183San Pedro Quiatoni ZapotecMexico13,500No Longer UnreachedSan Pedro Quiatoni ZapotecFolk Catholicism

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