Parrita is a canton and its only district in the Puntarenas province of Costa Rica.

[citation needed] Parrita was created on 5 July 1971 by decree 4787.

[1] Almost all of Costa Rican territory was inhabited before the arrival of the Spanish.

In 1924, a young German installed the first banana plantation near the Pirrís River (also called the Parrita River) which encouraged migration of people from San José and Guanacaste.

Inland the canton is delineated by a series of rivers that meander through the valleys of the coastal mountain range.