| Purus | |
| Settlement Type: | Province |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | Peru |
| Subdivision Type1: | Region |
| Subdivision Name1: | Ucayali |
| Established Title: | Founded |
| Established Date: | July 2, 1943 |
| Seat Type: | Capital |
| Seat: | Esperanza |
| Leader Title: | Mayor |
| Leader Name: | Emilio Montes Bardales (2007-10) |
| Area Total Km2: | 17847.76 |
| Population Total: | 3746 |
| Population Footnotes: | |
| Population Density Km2: | auto |
| Blank Name Sec1: | UBIGEO |
| Blank Info Sec1: | 2504 |
Purús Province is one of four provinces in the Ucayali Region, in the central Amazon rainforest of Peru. The Purus River runs through it.
The province is conformed by a single district (Spanish; Castilian: distrito|links=no), Purús District, whose capital is Esperanza. The district is headed by an (Spanish; Castilian: alcalde (mayor).
According to the 2007 census, Spanish was spoken by 30.2% of the population as their first language, while 2.3% spoke Asháninka, 0.6% spoke Quechua, 0.2% spoke Aymara, 66.2% spoke other indigenous languages and 0.4% spoke foreign languages.