Santa Rosa District is one of nine districts of the province Melgar in Peru.
The La Raya mountain range traverses the district. Some of the highest 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 (78.58%) learnt to speak in childhood, 21.12% of the residents started speaking using the Spanish language (2007 Peru Census).