page_title: Vintar
section_title: Geography
hierarchical_section_title: Vintar / Geography
caption_attribution_description: English: Vintar panorama with evening rainbow.
context_page_description: Vintar, officially the Municipality of Vintar, is a 1st class municipality in the province of Ilocos Norte, Philippines. According to the 2015 census, it has a population of 32,220 people.
  Vintar is the largest municipality in Ilocos Norte. Its patron saint is Saint Nicholas de Tolentino.
  It is home to one of the biggest convents in the province where it houses the Saint Nicholas Academy. It is also where Vintar Dam is located, first dam funded by the World Bank in Southeast Asia- an important cultural property listed by the National Commission for Culture and the Arts and is also the site of the Umok ni Siwawer Eco-Tourism Nature Park, the town's popular picnic resort.
context_section_description: Vintar is located on a plain land surrounded by mountains. Vintar is surrounded and bordered by:
  Bangui, Adams, Dumalneg, Burgos and Pagudpud in the north;
  Laoag, Sarrat, Piddig, and Carasi in the south;
  Pasuquin and Bacarra in the west;
  Calanasan, Apayao in the east.
  The town is considered as the sixth major river system in the region. Its head waters are on the western Cordillera slopes at the Kalinga and Apayao borders. It flows eastward and irrigates most of the flat lands of Ilocos Norte before making its exit into the China Sea. Vintar has the largest land area in Ilocos Norte.
caption: Vintar town with mountains in the background.
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