long the rugged and elongated coast of the Province of Ilocos Sur lies the small town of San Esteban. It is only 1,900 hectares large, the population about 7,200. its people depend on farming, those living in the coastal areas engage in fishing and there are stone craftsmen making up the stone industry for which the town is known.

San Esteban is endowed with a coastal line of about 5 kilometers of raw beaches. It is only recently that landowners developed their properties into beach resorts, making San Esteban one of the destinations for people out for a picnic or for a swim in the shallow seas.

This municipality is three hundred sixty three kilometers north of Metro Manila and forty-five kilometers south of Vigan City, the provincial capital. It is bounded on the north by the Municipality of Santa Maria and on the south by the town of Santiago. Crosswise by foothills, to the east are mountains bordering the Municipality of Burgos, and to west is the China Sea. San Esteban consists of ten barangays, four of them are along the coastline, three on the mountainside and the rest are along the National Highway.