Cortes is a rural settlement in the Banff and Buchan area of Aberdeenshire, Scotland, situated in the parish of Rathen, 7.8 kilometres (4.8 mi) south of Fraserburgh.

Primary education is provided at Rathen School,[2] whilst secondary pupils travel to Fraserburgh Academy.

To the south lies Mormond Hill, on the slopes of which a hill figure known as the White Stag of Mormond, marked with quartz stones, was first laid out by Mr F. W. Cordiner of Cortes to mark his wedding in 1870.

[4] The name Cortes is said to derive from a Gaelic word meaning circle, in reference to a structure that was described as a Druid temple in the New Statistical Account of Scotland (1845),[5] but is now believed to be the remains of a recumbent stone circle.

[7] Cortes House is a granite-built Regency mansion, built in 1810.