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 (NCCA) and is also the site of the Umok ni Siwawer Eco-Tourism Nature Park, the town's popular picnic resort.

Vintar derived its name from the Ilocano word, "intar", which used to describe the formation or order taken by the subject from their ruler whenever the chief called them to attention.

Vintar became a visita of Bacarra but it was later established as a Parish of San Nicolas de Tolentino.

[5] Vintar celebrates the feast of St. Nicholas every 10 September- a religious tradition inherited from the Augustinians lives that still practice the distribution of “tinapay ni San Nicolas” (unleavened bread).

But the Siwawer Festival, the annual town fiesta of Vintar is held from December 26–30 of every year.

The town is generally rural but famous all over the province for its beautiful women with strongly Spanish features.

Vintar is surrounded and bordered by: The town is considered as the sixth major river system in the region.

It flows eastward and irrigates most of the flat lands of Ilocos Norte before making its exit into the China Sea.

This festival of the town is being celebrated in honor of the siwawer the local name of the brahminy kite species of eagle that soars the skies of Vintar.

The Festival starts on December 4 which is also the Vintar Day, the foundation of the municipality when it was separated from the town of Bacarra in 1909.