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The Buglere of Panama

The Buglere of Panama, numbering approximately 20,500 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are a Chibchan people of Panama's Bocas del Toro and Veraguas provinces, the country's smallest Indigenous tribe, speaking a language closely related to Guaymi and living in round stilt houses while often intermarrying with the neighboring Ngobe Bugle. They mostly adhere to Ethnoreligion and Buglere is their primary language.

Photo by Google. (2026). Image generated by Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite: Buglere

Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Latin American and Caribbean Peoples
Country: Panama
People Cluster: Central American Indigenous
Primary Language(s): Buglere (sab)
Primary Religion(s): Ethnoreligion
Population: 20,500
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): No Longer Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): 2% or Greater but Less than 5% Evangelical
People Group ID: PG024827
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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Ethnoreligion
Religious Affiliation: Ethnoreligion

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Ethnoreligion Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Buglere
Language Family: Chibchan

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Buglere Speakers

Media Resources in Buglere:

Films:
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1 film

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Bible Resources in Buglere:

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1 entry

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Or check out the Buglere bible at Bible.com

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SPI: No longer Unreached

The Buglere 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 Buglere:
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 Buglere of Panama

For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or?rulers?or authorities—all things were created through him and for him.
readColossians 1:16

Pray for those who are lost among them, that they will come to know the One who created all things and holds all things together.

So then it depends not on human will or exertion, but on God, who has mercy.
readRomans 9:16

Pray that the merciful God who is at work in people's hearts will advance His gospel among them.

So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.
readRomans 6:11

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will lay down all evil desires, dying to sin and living for Him alone.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
readJohn 3:16

Pray that God will send and sustain believers to cross cultures and share the gospel with the lost. Ask that He will give them His heart for the lost and that many will believe in Him and not perish but have eternal life.

Buglere Across Countries (ROP3 - 101704) reported in the following countries:

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1 people group

PhotoPeople Group IDNameCountryPopulation ▲Strategic Progress IndexLanguageReligion
BuglerePG024827BuglerePanama20,500No Longer UnreachedBuglereEthnoreligion

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