Santiago de Paucaray is one of 11 districts of the Sucre Province in the Ayacucho region in Peru.
The population of Santiago de Paucaray (2005 census) is 1,030 people, 495 men and 535 women.
The people in the district are mainly indigenous citizens of Quechua descent. Quechua is the language which the majority of the population (84.16%) learnt to speak in childhood, 15.84% of the residents started speaking using the Spanish language (2007 Peru Census).
The populated places in the district are: