Candelario is a municipality in Spain, located in the province of Salamanca within the autonomous community of Castile and León.
It is one of the small municipalities that make up the province of Salamanca in the country's central-western interior. As a municipality, it forms a basic unit of local administration in Spain, encompassing the settlement and its surrounding territory.
Its administrative identity places it within the wider Castile and León region, an area of Spain known for its historic towns and rural municipalities.