Carabaya is a province of the Puno Region located in the southern part of Peru.

[1] It is bounded on the north by the Madre de Dios Region, on the east by the province of Sandia, on the south by the provinces of Azángaro, Melgar and Putina and on the west by the Cusco Region.

The province is traversed by the Willkanuta and Kallawaya mountain ranges.

The province measures 12,266.4 square kilometres (4,736.1 sq mi) and is divided into ten districts: The people in the province are mainly indigenous citizens of Quechua descent.

Quechua is the language which the majority of the population (84.12%) learnt to speak in childhood, 15.14% of the residents started speaking using the Spanish language and 0.62% Aymara (2007 Peru Census).