Valea Chioarului (Hungarian: Kővárgara) is a commune in Maramureș County, Romania.

It is composed of six villages: Curtuiușu Mare (Nagykörtvélyes), Durușa (Durusa), Fericea (Szamosfericse), Mesteacăn (Kisnyíres), Valea Chioarului, and Vărai (Kőváralja).

It lies at an altitude of about 300 m (980 ft), on the banks of the river Bârsău.

Valea Chioarului is crossed by national road DN1C [ro] (part of European route E58), which runs from Cluj-Napoca north towards Baia Mare and the Ukrainian border at Halmeu.

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