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The Jarawara of Brazil

The Jarawara of Brazil, numbering approximately 225 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are an Arawan-speaking Amazonian people of the middle Purus River, part of a language cluster shared with the closely related Jamamadi and Banawa that they understand with ease, commercializing rubber latex, Brazil nuts, and copaiba oil. They mostly adhere to Animism and Jamamadí is their primary language.

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

Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Latin American and Caribbean Peoples
Country: Brazil
People Cluster: Amazon
Primary Language(s): Jamamadí (jaa)
Primary Religion(s): Animism
Population: 225
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): No Longer Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): 10% or Greater Evangelical
People Group ID: PG016901
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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Animism
Religious Affiliation: Ethnoreligion

70%
%
Animism Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Jamamadí
Language Family: Arawan

100%
%
Jamamadí Speakers

Media Resources in Jamamadí:

Films:
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Bible Resources in Jamamadí:

No Bible resources are listed for this language.

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SPI: No longer Unreached

The Jarawara 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 Jarawara:
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 Jarawara of Brazil

That they should seek God, and perhaps feel their way toward him and find him. Yet he is actually not far from each one of us.
readActs 17:27

Pray that those who don't yet know Christ will search diligently for God and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us.

And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, "In you shall all the nations be blessed"
readGalatians 3:8

Ask the Lord to fulfill His promise to Abraham that all nations would be blessed by advancing the gospel to every people group who has yet to receive it.

I will sing of the steadfast love of the Lord, forever; with my mouth I will make known your faithfulness to all generations.
readPsalm 89:1

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will declare and record His faithfulness and love to be passed on from generation to generation.

O LORD, who shall sojourn in your tent? Who shall dwell on your holy hill? He who walks blamelessly and does what is right and speaks truth in his heart.
readPsalm 15:1-2

Ask God to send believers who will go and, with integrity, walk blamelessly and do what is right, speaking truth about the Lord with those who need to learn about His redemption plan.

Jarawara Across Countries (ROP3 - 104200) reported in the following countries:

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1 people group

PhotoPeople Group IDNameCountryPopulation ▼Strategic Progress IndexLanguageReligion
JarawaraPG016901JarawaraBrazil225No Longer UnreachedJamamadíAnimism

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