Higinio Carrocera Mortera (January 1908 – 8 May 1938) was an Asturian anarcho-syndicalist who participated in the Revolution of 1934 and fought during the Spanish Civil War in Asturias.

The son of a working-class couple, during his childhood he helped his family with agricultural tasks while attending the village primary school.

With the defeat of the Revolution, he was able to escape, but was arrested in Zaragoza on 7 August 1935, together with Constantino Antuña Huerta and taken to the Oviedo Prison.

After the victory of the Popular Front in the 1936 Spanish general election, he participated in a prisoner mutiny that obtained their freedom on 20 February, one day before the amnesty was promulgated.

[3] Later he directed the military operations during the Siege of Oviedo[4] and in September 1936, he was wounded in the Villafría sector,[5] during the fight against the nationalists.