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PEOPLE GROUP PROFILE

The Huambiza of Peru

The Huambiza of Peru, numbering approximately 13,000 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are a Jivaroan people of the upper Maranon and Santiago rivers along the Peru-Ecuador border, one of the few Amazonian peoples to repel both Inca and Spanish conquest, who recently organized as an autonomous indigenous nation. They mostly adhere to Animism and Huambisa is their primary language.

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

Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Latin American and Caribbean Peoples
Country: Peru
People Cluster: Amazon
Primary Language(s): Huambisa (hub)
Primary Religion(s): Animism
Population: 13,000
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): No Longer Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): 2% or Greater but Less than 5% Evangelical
People Group ID: PG017538
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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Animism
Religious Affiliation: Ethnoreligion

95%
%
Animism Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Huambisa
Language Family: Chicham

100%
%
Wampís Speakers

Media Resources in Huambisa:

Films:
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1 film

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Bible Resources in Huambisa:

Bible Name (Translation)VideoAudioText
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1 entry

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Or check out the Huambisa bible at Bible.com

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SPI: No longer Unreached

The Huambiza 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 Huambiza:
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 Huambiza of Peru

Jesus said to her, "Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life"
readJohn 4:13-14

Pray that those who don't know Jesus will drink of the living water that only Christ can provide and never thirst again.

But those that were sown on the good soil are the ones who hear the word and accept it and bear fruit, thirtyfold and sixtyfold and a hundredfold.
readMark 4:20

Pray that those who have never encountered the gospel will have the opportunity to receive it, and that it will fall on good soil and bear much fruit.

Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.
readPsalm 119:105

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will meditate daily on the Word of God so that, through it, they might have wisdom for the big and small decisions they face every day.

Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.
readJohn 12:24

Pray that God will raise up men and women who are willing to die to their own desires, bearing much fruit for the kingdom among individuals and in places where His gospel has not been proclaimed.

Huambiza Across Countries (ROP3 - 103888) reported in the following countries:

Strategic Progress Index
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1 people group

PhotoPeople Group ID ▼NameCountryPopulationStrategic Progress IndexLanguageReligion
HuambizaPG017538HuambizaPeru13,000No Longer UnreachedHuambisaAnimism

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