Caranavi Province is one of the twenty provinces of the Bolivian La Paz Department and is situated in the department's eastern parts.

[1] The creation of the province had been a local cause embraced by Ramiro Revuelta, a Deputy in the national legislature who was assassinated on November 28, 1992.

(1992) As of 2003[update], Caranavi is the main source for Bolivian coffee production and supplies organic coffee to the national and world market.

[6] Since 23 December 2009, the province is divided into two municipalities[7][8][9][10] which are further subdivided into 21 cantons.

At the time of its creation in 1992, the province consisted of fourteen cantons: Caranavi, Choro, Taypilaya, Santa Fe, Alcoche, Villa Elevacion, Inca Huara De Ckullu Kuchu, Carrasco Uyunense, Inicua, Santa Ana de Alto Beni, San Pablo, Chojña, Santa Rosa, Belen and Eduardo Abaroa.