| San Juan Bautista | |
| Native Name: | Distrito de San Juan Bautista |
| Native Name Lang: | es |
| Settlement Type: | District |
| Mapsize: | frameless |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: |  Peru |
| Subdivision Type1: | Region |
| Subdivision Name1: | Ica |
| Subdivision Type2: | Province |
| Subdivision Name2: | Ica |
| Parts Type: | Subdivisions |
| Parts Style: | para |
| Established Title: | Founded |
| Established Date: | June 25, 1876 |
| Seat Type: | Capital |
| Seat: | San Juan Bautista |
| Leader Title: | Mayor |
| Leader Name: | Jorge Luis Quispe Saavedra |
| Unit Pref: | Metric |
| Area Total Km2: | 26.39 |
| Elevation M: | 416 |
| Population Total: | 11382 |
| Population As Of: | 2005 census |
| Population Density Km2: | auto |
| Timezone1: | PET |
| Utc Offset1: | -5 |
| Blank Name Sec1: | UBIGEO |
| Blank Info Sec1: | 110110 |
| Website: | http://www.munisanjuanbautistaica.gob.pe/ |
San Juan Bautista District is one of fourteen districts of the Ica Province of the Ica Region of Peru.[1] The District 'seat' is the town of San Juan Bautista.
Other neighboring village in this district are El Olivo, and El Carmen (not to be confused with another District of the same name in the Chincha province of Ica). Both of these villages are approximately 8 to 10 kilometers north of village of San Juan Bautista.
This entire District suffered greatly from the 2007 Peru earthquake.
San Juan Bautista District was created on June 25, 1876, during Manuel Pardo y Lavalle term.
The Origin and Community Foundation of San Juan Bautista, is given in the Inca era where there was a settlement in which the District of San Juan Bautista, called the Collana Huaranga of San Juan de Urin Ica, under the Inca chiefs of Tataxe Dynasty (Tataje) and Achichicamas (Anicama). In 1600 it was known under the name of "Chiefdom". This human settlement was part of the distribution or encomendería of Don Nicolas de Rivera "El Viejo" being its first indigenous curaca Don Domingo Tataxe.
As a people the district was created in the colonial era by Don Nicolás de Rivera the Elder, the origin is lost in the religious fervor of the colonial era and was under the patronage of the "precursor of the Messiah" in the year 1549 the Spaniards founded the First Parish of San Juan Bautista, from where they began catechizing the indigenous people of the North and center of the province of Ica. This parish was of great importance and roots, the proof is that here lived the chronicler Miguel Cabello Balboa; in view of the religious fervor at the time 1600, they built the first church of Cana Brava, mud and guarangos in the atrium of the current church, after the Jesuit priest Don Francisco Agustín Mendieta Mariaca, built the present church Matrix, between the years 1762 to 1774. The participating farmers and indigenous leaders or chiefs with his subjects would meet on Sunday to labor for 12 years. The Church is aware of classic style with three naves, altar and Huarango 14 columns covered with reed and plaster, this church is considered a national historic monument by the National Institute of Culture and was destroyed by the earthquake of 2007.[2]