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PEOPLE GROUP PROFILE

The Yanomamö of Brazil

The Yanomamö of Brazil, numbering approximately 2,200 people, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are an Amazonian people of the Orinoco and northern Amazon basins spanning Venezuela and Brazil, living in kinship-based villages called shabonos where women grow most of the food, first sustained outside contact in the 1940s brought deadly epidemics. They mostly adhere to Animism and Yanomamö is their primary language.

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

Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Latin American and Caribbean Peoples
Country: Brazil
People Cluster: Amazon
Primary Language(s): Yanomamö (guu)
Primary Religion(s): Animism
Population: 2,200
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): Engaged yet Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): Less than 2% Evangelical, No Recent CP Activity
People Group ID: PG016826
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Pray for the Yanomamö of Brazil

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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Animism
Religious Affiliation: Ethnoreligion

80%
%
Animism Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Yanomamö
Language Family: Yanomamic

100%
%
Yanomamö Speakers

Media Resources in Yanomamö:

Films:
TitleLink
JESUSView Film

1 film

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Bible Resources in Yanomamö:

Bible Name (Translation)VideoAudioText
2008 Margaret Jank✓✓

1 entry

Provided by Faith Comes by Hearing

Or check out the Yanomamö bible at Bible.com

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SPI: Unreached yet Engaged

The Yanomamö are Engaged yet Unreached, which means there are less than 2% evangelical Christian populations but there are sustained efforts at establishing self-sustaining churches consistent with evangelical faith and practice.

Next steps for the Yanomamö:
Continue prayer and fasting for this group
Continue gospel seed sowing and church planting among this group
Begin training up local leaders to lead and develop strategies to reach their own people

Pray specifically for the Yanomamö of Brazil

Whoever makes a practice of sinning is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil.
read1 John 3:8

Pray for those living in darkness to recognize the destructive power of sin and the victory Christ has won over it.

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.

And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.
readPhilippians 1:6

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will be assured that God will complete the good work He has begun in them until the day of Christ's return.

And Jesus answered him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah! For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven."
readMatthew 16:17

Pray that God who is in heaven will place believers in the lives of people who need to encounter the gospel and that He will reveal to them the truth of what they hear.

Yanomam, Guaharibo Across Countries (ROP3 - 110975) reported in the following countries:

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2 people groups

PhotoPeople Group IDNameCountryPopulation ▼Strategic Progress IndexLanguageReligion
YanomamoPG016508YanomamoVenezuela8,200No Longer UnreachedYanomamöAnimism
YanomamöPG016826YanomamöBrazil2,200Engaged yet UnreachedYanomamöAnimism

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