Zaferia, sometimes Zafaria or Zefaria, is a neighborhood in the eastern part of Long Beach, California.

[1] It was founded as a small town, and shortly thereafter was served by the Pacific Electric Railway's Balboa Line, which had a station named "Zaferia" near Anaheim and Redondo at the junction with the 3rd Street/Redondo Avenue local.

[4] According to the city of Long Beach, the name was put on a sign at the rail station,[3] and according the 1919 newspaper account, zefaría meant farmhouse or village in "Mexican".

[2] There was a domestic violence murder-suicide in front of "an electric train crew and passengers" at Zafaria station in 1919.

[3] A park established in 1953 at Pacific Coast Highway and Redondo bears the name Plaza Zafaria.