Nomatsigenga

The Nomatsigenga are an Arawak-speaking people of Peru's central jungle, settled mainly in the Pangoa district of Satipo province in Junín. In their language matsigenga means person; they are a distinct people from the Matsigenka, although their languages are close enough to be treated as dialects of one tongue, and their history has long been intertwined with that of the Asháninka.

Franciscans began missionary work among them in 1635, founding the Quimiri mission on the Chanchamayo, but the friars were killed; a rebuilt Quimiri and the new mission of Santa Cruz de Sonomoro followed from 1673. The uprising of Juan Santos Atahualpa in 1742 drove the Europeans out of the region again for decades.