Karatuzsky District (Russian: Карату́зский райо́н) is an administrative[1] and municipal[5] district (raion), one of the forty-three in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia.

It is located in the south of the krai and borders with Kuraginsky District and the Tuva Republic in the east, Yermakovsky District in the south and southwest, and with Shushensky and Minusinsky Districts in the west.

The area of the district is 10,236 square kilometers (3,952 sq mi).

[2] Its administrative center is the rural locality (a selo) of Karatuzskoye.

[4] The district is located in the Amyl River basin, in the southeastern part of the Minusinsk Hollow at the spurs of eastern Sayan Mountains.