| En Name: | Churapcha |
| Ru Name: | Чурапча́ |
| Loc Name1: | Чурапчы |
| Loc Lang1: | Sakha |
| Coordinates: | 61.9928°N 132.4317°W |
| Map Label Position: | top |
| Image Coa: | Gerb Churapcha ulus.png |
| Federal Subject: | Sakha Republic |
| Federal Subject Ref: | [1] |
| Adm District Jur: | Churapchinsky District |
| Pop 2010Census: | 8769 |
| Pop Latest: | 10177 |
| Pop Latest Date: | 2018 |
| Established Date: | 1725 |
| Postal Codes: | 678670 |
| Date: | October 2015 |
Churapcha (ru|Чурапча́; sah|Чурапчы, Çurapçı) is a rural locality (a selo) and the administrative center of Churapchinsky District in the Sakha Republic, Russia. Population:
Churapcha is located by the lake of the same name, which drains to the left of the Tatta River, a tributary of the Aldan flowing a few kilometers to the southeast. The town lies 178km (111miles) east of the republic's capital of Yakutsk in the basin of the Aldan River, a tributary of the Lena.[2]
It was founded in 1725 after opening the road (trakt) from Yakutsk to Okhotsk, which was supposed to allow post and trade to reach the Sea of Okhotsk. The road passed through very rough and isolated terrain and was never fully operational, eventually being officially closed in 1852. In 1930, Churapcha became the administrative center of Churapchinsky District and soon thereafter was connected by road to the outside world through the construction of the Kolyma Highway.
The Kolyma Highway from Yakutsk to Magadan runs through Churapcha.
Churapcha has an extremely continental subarctic climate (Köppen climate classification: Dfd), with average winter temperatures even colder than nearby, more northerly Yakutsk. The summers are very warm and on average among the warmest for Dfd/Dwd/Dsd climates. Churapcha is one of the very few places on earth where difference between average summer and winter temperature exceeds 60°C.
Precipitation is significantly lower in the winter.