Urban settlement is on the west side of the town, a basin of low-level hilly-to-flat lands surrounded by mountains.

The name Paracelis came into existence as early as the 1900s as part of the territorial barangays of Natonin within the District of Kalao.

On December 25, 2007, the town's mayor, Cesar Rafael, was killed in an ambush in sitio Sinigpit, Barangay Butigue.

[7] Paracelis is currently a melting pot of migrants from different areas, such as the Gaddang, Balangao, Majukayong, Kalinga, and Ifugao tribes, including Ilokanos.

Trade activities include the commerce of basic consumer goods, handicrafts, food business, and others.

The municipal government is planning to pursue real estate development and tourism as its next engines of growth.

Paracelis, belonging to the lone congressional district of the province of Mountain Province, is governed by a mayor designated as its local chief executive and by a municipal council as its legislative body in accordance with the Local Government Code.

Members of the Municipal Council (2019–2022):[21] The only mode of transportation to and from Paracelis are buses and jeepneys plying to Santiago, Baguio, Tabuk, Alfonso Lista and Natonin.

As of 2017, there is concreting of the national highway from Butigue, Palitud, Anonat going to Roxas, Isabela Despite being mandated to host the College of Agriculture of the Mountain Province State University[22] in the northern Barangay Bacarri, the campus is still unrealized due to funding difficulties from the national government.

the municipal mayor, Avelino C. Amangyen signed a memorandum of agreement at the Japanese Embassy in Manila with the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) representatives for the construction of the rural health unit building.