Caraz,[4][5] Carás[6] or Caraz de Santa Cruz is a mountain in the Cordillera Blanca in the Andes of Peru, about 6,025 metres (19,767 ft)[4] high.

This peak is inside Huascarán National Park, most precisely southwest of Artesonraju, northwest of Pirámide, north of Lake Parón and south of Santa Cruz Creek.

Its slopes are within two Peruvian cities: Santa Cruz and Caraz.

Its parent peak is Chacraraju and the Topographic isolation is 6.6 kilometers.

[8] Caraz was first climbed by Hermann Huber, Alfred Koch and Helmut Schmidt in 1956.