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The Tena Lowland Quichua of Ecuador

The Tena Lowland Quichua of Ecuador, numbering approximately 53,000 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are an ethnolinguistic community of Ecuador. They mostly adhere to Ethnoreligion and Tena Lowland Quichua is their primary language.

Photo by Google. (2026). Image generated by Gemini 2.5 Flash: Quichua, Tena Lowland

Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Latin American and Caribbean Peoples
Country: Ecuador
People Cluster: Quechua
Primary Language(s): Tena Lowland Quichua (quw)
Primary Religion(s): Ethnoreligion
Population: 53,000
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): No Longer Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): 5% or Greater but Less than 10% Evangelical
People Group ID: PG017481
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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Ethnoreligion
Religious Affiliation: Ethnoreligion

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%
Ethnoreligion Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Tena Lowland Quichua
Language Family: Quechuan

80%
%
Quichua, Tena Lowland Speakers

Media Resources in Tena Lowland Quichua:

Films:
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JESUSView Film

1 film

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Bible Resources in Tena Lowland Quichua:

Bible Name (Translation)VideoAudioText
1982 Hermanos Libres del Ecuador (Revision)✓✓✓

1 entry

Provided by Faith Comes by Hearing

Or check out the Tena Lowland Quichua bible at Bible.com

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SPI: No longer Unreached

The Tena Lowland Quichua 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 Tena Lowland Quichua:
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 Tena Lowland Quichua of Ecuador

For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.
readRomans 1:20

As God's creation declares His glory, pray that multitudes who don't know Him will see the works of His hands and desire to know more about the Creator.

Moses said, "Please show me your glory." And he said, "I will make all my goodness pass before you and will proclaim before you my name 'The LORD.' And I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy."
readExodus 33:18-19

Pray that many will come to know the glory of God, which is revealed in Jesus Christ, and that they will rejoice in the mercy He offers them.

“The LORD is my portion,” says my soul, “therefore I will hope in him.”
readLamentations 3:24

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ and walk through trials, they will be satisfied with the Lord as their portion and will place all their hope in Him.

But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, though it was not I, but the grace of God that is with me. Whether then it was I or they, so we preach and so you believed.
read1 Corinthians 15:10–11

Pray that God's people will preach the message of Jesus' death and resurrection and that it will spread among the lost through the selfless witness of believers.

Quichua, Tena Lowland Across Countries (ROP3 - 109945) reported in the following countries:

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1 people group

PhotoPeople Group IDName ▼CountryPopulationStrategic Progress IndexLanguageReligion
Tena Lowland QuichuaPG017481Tena Lowland QuichuaEcuador53,000No Longer UnreachedTena Lowland QuichuaEthnoreligion

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