Pesquera is a municipality in the autonomous community of Cantabria, in northern Spain. It is one of the many small municipalities that make up the Cantabrian countryside, a region on Spain's northern coast bordering the Cantabrian Sea.
As a municipality, Pesquera forms part of the local administrative structure of Cantabria, which is divided into municipalities that serve as the basic tier of local government in Spain. The region of Cantabria is an autonomous community with its own institutions of self-government, and its municipalities fall within that framework.
Beyond its status as a municipality within Cantabria, the available source material provides no further detail on the locality's population, geography, history, or landmarks.