Carriches is a municipality in the province of Toledo, within the autonomous community of Castile-La Mancha, Spain. It is one of the many small towns that make up this central Spanish province, located in the region historically known as Castile.
The municipality is small in population: according to the 2006 census conducted by Spain's National Statistics Institute (INE), Carriches had 296 inhabitants. Like many rural municipalities in the province of Toledo, it is characterised by a low and dispersed population rather than by urban development.
Carriches is administered as a municipality, the basic unit of local government in Spain, which means it has its own local council responsible for municipal affairs. Its identity is tied to the province of Toledo and the wider Castile-La Mancha region, an area of the Spanish interior.