Eastern Peru, Brazil south of Amazon (east to northern Maranhío, south to Rondônia and south-central Mato Grosso, also disjunct coastal population from Pernambuco south to Rio de Janeiro) and northern Bolivia.
 
Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).
Red-headed Manakin (Ceratopipra rubrocapilla) [XC472324]
by Ricardo Gagliardi from Uni\u00e3o Biological Reserve, Casimiro de Abreu \/ Rio das Ostras, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (call)
Red-headed Manakin (Ceratopipra rubrocapilla) [XC525964]
by Dante Buzzetti from Esta\u00e7\u00e3o Ecol\u00f3gica de Murici, Murici, Alagoas, Brazil (call, display calls)
Subspecies
No subspecies.
May form a superspecies with Golden-headed Manakin (Ceratopipra erythrocephala) and Red-capped Manakin (Ceratopipra mentalis) and has been considered conspecific with former, but the two occur sympatrically in north-eastern Peru (along R Ucayali and lower R Huallaga).