Zafara (pronounced [zaˈfaːɾa]) is a settlement on the eastern outskirts of Žužemberk in southeastern Slovenia.

The Municipality of Žužemberk is now included in the Southeast Slovenia Statistical Region.

[2] The Žužemberk parish church, dedicated to Saints Hermagoras and Fortunatus, is located in Zafara.

The Partisans attached on 2 May in an operation led by Franc Rozman, forcing the Home Guard to withdraw.

Dean Karel Gnidovec (1877–1962) managed to save some of the church's statues and paintings by transporting them to a barn at Cvibelj pri Žužemberku, but this was later hit during a bombing raid and the artworks were destroyed.