Caraz (mountain)

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Caraz, also called Carás or Caraz de Santa Cruz, is a tall mountain in the Cordillera Blanca of the Peruvian Andes. It stands about 6,025 meters (19,767 feet) high. The peak is in the Ancash Region, Huaylas Province, within the districts of Caraz and Santa Cruz, and it lies inside Huascarán National Park. It sits southwest of Artesonraju, northwest of Pirámide, north of Lake Parón, and south of Santa Cruz Creek. The slopes are in the towns of Santa Cruz and Caraz.

The official height is 6,025 m, but the exact altitude is not certain due to gaps in some data. The key saddle is around 3,253 m, giving Caraz a prominence of about 2,772 m. Its parent peak is Chacraraju, and the two peaks are about 6.6 km apart.

Caraz has several climbing routes and was first climbed in 1956 by Hermann Huber, Alfred Koch, and Helmut Schmidt. Routes named Carás I, II, and III were opened between the 1950s and 1980s.