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Importance of Site Orientation and Site Characteristics to your Project

A plain land surrounded by mountains.

As Vintar is generally mountainous, it follows that its dominant existing land use is

inclined to forestry purposes as is declared in the Existing General Land Use distribution and is

supported by the existing 2009-2018 Comprehensive Land Use Program of the municipality. Due

to denudation caused by bush fires, “kaingin” and extreme heat during summer, a substantial

portion is currently covered with grassland. Lower and flat areas are used for agriculture, fishing

and residential purposes. with grassland.

ompared with other municipalities in the province, Vintar has the following advantages:

 Presence of large and vast tracts of forested land containing a substantial amount of timber and
hardwood.

 Fertile, rich croplands with reliable irrigation, excellent for diversified farming and capable of
sustaining 2-3 1⁄2 crop schedules per year;

 Large tree farm areas with soil types good for commercial fruit trees and the production of crops
suitable for animal feed;

 Vast grasslands and pasture / grazing areas with the potential of sustaining commercial livestock
production and forestry development and utilization;

 Presence of natural barriers against adverse weather occurrences such as typhoons

 Major producer of food crops and commercial cash crops.

 Strategic Geographical location.

 Potential Tourism resources.

 Favorable peace and order situation.

Adequate irrigation

3. project highlight

Sustainable balance between agricultural and forest areas;

Enhanced biodiversity as well as protection mechanisms for

biodiversity resources;

 Further development of access roads to enable speedy movement of people and services between
locations, especially in distant and hard-to-reach barangays

 Development of flood-control structures to lessen the risks of flooding

 Reforestation initiatives to restore lost forest cover

 Generation of opportunities for stable and gainful employment

 Establishment of comprehensive health facilities and services

 Extensive development of tourism potentials

4. Vintar Tourism in one word “Coddiwomple” which means to travel purposefully towards a vague
destination vintar is famous for its extreme water activities in which tourists expect within the
municipality, however, as vintar is a place with plain lands surrounded by mountains, the resort
clearly extends vintar’s water tourism into becoming agri-ecotourism in which to combine both farm
tourism and support the mountain tourism as to be multi-functional in terms of spaces and an extend
residential or commercial space for different kinds of tourists in vintar.

5. WEAKNESSES: PRIORITY ISSUES AND CONCERNS

 Inefficient and sluggish delivery of services due to challenging topography

 Increasing volume of waste generation in the urban areas

 Inadequate flood control structures

 Continual loss of plant and animal species due to loss of forest cover

 Lack of medical and health facilities and services

 Lack of business investments

 Presence of areas that are at risk for erosion and flooding

 Low farm mechanization

OPPORTUNITIES