Rancho Chualar was a 8,890-acre (36.0 km2) Mexican land grant in the Salinas Valley, in present-day Monterey County, California.
It was given in 1839 by Governor pro tem Manuel Jimeno to Juan Malarín.
[1] The grant extended along the north bank of the Salinas River, and encompassed present-day Chualar.
He made Monterey his home, and in 1824 he married Maria Josefa Joaquina Estrada, a daughter of José Mariano Estrada, grantee of Rancho Buena Vista.
[4][5] With the cession of California to the United States following the Mexican-American War, the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo provided that the land grants would be honored.