The Akurio of Suriname, numbering approximately 70 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are described as a nomadic hunter-gatherer people of Suriname's interior, isolated until missionary contact in 1969 led to settlement at Pelelu Tepu, after which nearly half died within two years and the group gradually adopted the Trio language They are an Indigenous people, with Akurio (Akuliyo) as their ethnic/kinship group and are in the South American Indigenous people cluster of the Latin American and Caribbean Peoples. They mostly adhere to Protestantism and Trió is their primary language.