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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

Abraham said, "God will provide for himself the lamb for a burnt offering, my son." So they went both of them together.
readGenesis 22:8

Pray that God will open the ears of those who are lost to understand and believe that only shed blood takes away sin and that, like Abraham, they will believe that God Himself provides the lamb for the burnt offering, who is Jesus the final, perfect sacrifice.

For your steadfast love is great to the heavens, your faithfulness to the clouds.
readPsalm 57:10

Pray that God will work, even in the hearts of hard-to-reach people, and that they will rejoice in His steadfast love and faithfulness.

How can a young man keep his way pure? By guarding it according to your word.
readPsalm 119:9

Pray that as young men place their faith in Jesus, they will walk in purity and live according to God's Word.

To the Jews I became as a Jew, in order to win Jews. To those under the law I became as one under the law (though not being myself under the law) that I might win those under the law.
read1 Corinthians 9:20

Pray that believers from similar cultures will be compelled by Christ's love to reach people who don't know the gospel, and that those people will receive the good news with joy.

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

Strategic Progress Index
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1 people group

PhotoPeople Group IDNameCountryPopulationStrategic Progress IndexLanguage ▼Religion
BuglerePG024827BuglerePanama20,500No Longer UnreachedBuglereEthnoreligion

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