Carataunas is a municipality in the province of Granada, in the autonomous community of Andalusia, southern Spain. It is one of the small settlements that make up the Alpujarra region on the southern slopes of the Sierra Nevada.
The municipality is rural and sparsely populated. According to the 2005 census carried out by Spain's National Statistics Institute (INE), Carataunas had a population of 198 inhabitants.
Like other villages in its area, it is characterised by its small size and its setting within the mountainous terrain of the Granada province.