[2] It is located in the plain of Jouma (Guma) at an elevation of 360 meters above sea level.

According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Qibar had a population of 743 in the 2004 census.

[3] It serves as the traditional seat of the chief Yazidi family of the Afrin area, the Darwish clan.

[2] The name of the village was officially changed to "al-Hawa" during the Arabization campaign of President Hafez al-Assad during the 1970s.

The medieval Syrian geographer Yaqut al-Hamawi mentioned the village in his 13th-century work.