Qeparo (Albanian definite form: Qeparoi; Greek: Κηπαρό, Kiparo) is a seaside village in the municipality of Himara in Vlorë County, Albania.

[4][5][6][7][8] The first identified form of the name of the village is "Clapero" in the 1566 correspondence of the people of Himara who were seeking refuge from the Ottoman Empire with the Kingdom of Naples.

Kukum's Early Bronze Age pottery and building techniques and pattern bear similarities to those of the same period found in Maliq, Shkodër, Gajtan and Mat.

[12] Mycenaean Greek Buchholz IV double axes of the final stage of the LBA palatial system (1100-1030 BC) have been found in the location Shafka e Kudhësit between Qeparo and Kudhës.

Among the internal factors was the process of socio-economic differentiation, with the emergence of an aristocratic class and the consequent conflicts between settlements that required defence structures.

Among the external factors could have been the pressure from neighbouring territories of Greece, due to the uncertainty and turmoil that started with the collapse of the Mycenaean civilization and continued in the Dark Ages (12th–8th centuries BCE).

[19] In terms of the planimetric structures they find parallels with similar settlements in the rest of the territory of Chaonia and southern Illyria, but they are different from the prehistoric fortified villages of Molossia, which on the other hand clearly display an organization of the inhabited spaces and provide evidence for a continuous habitation from the Bronze Age to the Hellenistic period.

Apart from these Kapedana, the villages in the Himara region did not have unique leaders, but rather a council made up of the heads of the local fis or brotherhoods known as primates in relevant documents.

[25] In 1583 Kleparo (Qeparo) was listed among the villages of the Sopot Nahiye, which was an administrative division of the Sanjak of Albania within the Ottoman Empire.

[27] In the same year, the villages of Himara, Palasa, Ilias, Vuno, Pilur and Qeparo refused to submit to the Pasha of Delvina.

[33] During the Balkan Wars (1912–1913) the locals attacked and killed communities from adjacent Muslim villages in fear that the later would be recruited by the Ottoman army against Qeparo.

[34] Along with other adjacent villages residents of Qeparo and Vuno supported the armed operations of the Greek Army during the Balkan Wars.

[40] That year the government of the People's Republic of Albania built the main road along the coast which boosted economic and other opportunities in the area.

[40] Later, the wider area became a tourist destination and New Qeparo has had to deal with problems related to uncontrolled urban sprawl and population growth.

[41] To the east, Qeparo is bounded by the village of Borsh, to the northeast by Çorraj, to the north with Kudhës, to the northwest by Piluri, to the west with the town of Himara and to the south and southwest by the Ionian sea.

[52] Qeparo is part of a common and barely traceable Greek language substratum area which includes both sides of the Ionian Sea as seen in local toponyms.