Hawandawaki

Region

Hawandawaki is a rural municipality in the Department Tessaoua in Niger.

Geography

Hawandawaki located in the Sahel region and is bordered on the southwest by the neighboring state of Nigeria. The neighboring communities in Niger are Gazaoua the northwest, Korgom in the north, Tsaouni in the Northeast and Dan Barto to the southeast. The municipality is divided into 28 administrative villages, 18 traditional villages, 68 hamlets and four bearings. The main town of the rural community is Hawandawaki consisting of the administrative villages Hawandawaki Haoussa and Hawandawaki Peul.

History

The rural community Hawandawaki went out in 2002 as part of a nationwide administrative reform from the southern part of the canton Korgom.

Population

At the 2001 census Hawandawaki had 35 143 inhabitants. For the year 2010 47.498 inhabitants were calculated.

Economy and infrastructure

The municipality is located in that narrow zone along the border with Nigeria, ranging from Tounouga in the west to the east Malawa and operated in irrigated crop production for cash crops. By Hawandawaki the National Road 20, which connects the village with the neighboring community Korgom runs.