BARANGAY BUTAC, NATONIN MOUNTAIN PROVINCE
Barangay Butac is situated at the center part of the municipality of Natonin. The famous Apatan Rice Terraces and the To’or View Deck are part of the barangay Butac. Barangay Sta. Isabel is formerly part of barangay Butac but when they met the required population and land area, they have to stand as one barangay.
The boundary of barangay Butac in the east is the Opet River which separates Butac from barangay Balangao and Poblacion. In the west, it is bounded with the Femaw River which separates Butac from Sta. Isabel. In the southern boundary. In the north, the boundary is the mountain of ‘Lumang’,wherin behind the mountain is the province of Kalinga.
The name “Butac” was derived from the native language ‘nabta’ which means ‘broken’. In one occasion in this place, the people cooked in a vat (“martafe”) but they were surprised when it was broken and this was strange thing to happen. One day a person ask his companion where he’s going and he answered, ‘I’m going to ‘Feta’ {a place where the vat (“martafe”)was broken). From the time on, they called this place ’Feta’, then later on ’Butac’.