Paras District is one of six districts of the province Cangallo in Peru.
One of the highest mountains of the district is Chiqllarasu at . Other mountains are listed below:
The people in the district are mainly indigenous citizens of Quechua descent. Quechua is the language which the majority of the population (85.65%) learnt to speak in childhood, 14.16% of the residents started speaking using the Spanish language (2007 Peru Census).