Botolan was stablished in 1979. This town was named because of the abundant kind of banana plant with sweet seady fruit called BOTO-AN" which was found along the western bank of the brook, which is now the eastern boundary of the town. The word BOTOL was derived from Zambal (Tina), which means seed plus "AN" meaning witb.

The former site of this town was Babon-Poponan, also named Babayan. The old town of Babayan was establisbed when Doña Teresa, an intelligent woman from Mabalacat Pampanga with Pedro Daet and Lucas, secured permit from Manila to establish a town. Aside from the permits, she was given an image of Sta. Monica (Patron Saint of the town whose feast day on the 4 of May) and a church bell. Some mis-sionaty priests were assigned to reconquest the town. Among them were Fr. Nicholas Manabatand Fr. Francisco Salazar (1910-1918) until the people were brought together to form a community. Francis Caguineman, the founder of this town and leader of the natives who worked barmoniously with Fr. Sala-zat in persuading the people to settle together was the first gobernadorcillo in Botolan. Juan Palos be came the Cabeza de Barangay under Caguineman. The Roman Catbolic Church was constructed and fin-is bed at about the last quarter of the nineteenth century. The Spaniards left Botolan on June 1999 and by December of the same year, the Americans arrived.

In Zambales, Botolan claimed to bave the bigbest mine deposit, the largest arable lands, the best fisbing zones and the most abundant in timber and other forest products. The people living in the poblacion and in most lowland barangay speak the Botolan Zambal. Those in the barangaysamong the west coast like Bangan, Capayawan, Panan, Binoclutan and Porac speak Ilocano. The ancestors of this group cameftom Ilocos region. Cultural minorities who speak, Negrito dialect, inbabited the eastern ba-rangays. This municipality is composed of thirty-one (31) barangay. As in Religion, most of the people are Roman Catholics and Aglipayars, while the rest belong to other sects.

Most Boboleñas are engaged in farming, this is the major industry of the people. The irregular coastline makes fisting the second ma in source of livelibood oftbe people Since mountains covered with thick forest bound the town, logging becomes the one important industries. Botolan bas big deposit of talc, sulpb ur, copper, asbestos, and other mineral. Cattle raising is becoming a popular industry because of thewide grazing lands. Salt-making, bocayo- linga, matweaving and basketty in some barangays are also among the important source of income of the people of the locality.

The violent eruption of Mt. Pinatubo on June 15,1991 ranks as one of the largest vokanic events of this. century, bas leftan indelible imprint in the lives of so many Boboleños. Eleven (TT) barangays were buried deep in volcanic asb and labar. The people bad gonetbrough untold sufferings and uncertainty. The gov-ernment bas responded with extensive rebabilitation programs, including the resettlement of displaced populations and emergency engineering interventions to protect threatened communities and infrastruc-fure. The Recovery Action Plan was prepared as a contribution to this on-going rebabilitation of the long -term alternatives available for responding to this unique challenge. Resettlement a reas were situated in Sitio Daplak - Taugtog, Sitio Baquilan in San Juan, and Sitio Loobbunga in Taugtog. Majority of the set-flets are unemployed or underemployed. Most of the families are engaged in farming and they are de pendent on the productive land that the government or any agency can provide them. Some of them dared to go back to their original place to plant some root crops in order to sustą in their families. Majority of them are still dependent on government to provide them with sustainable livelibood and opportunities.

However, fen years (TO) affer the big bang, the various social and economic structures of the town are aga in grinding briskly. With God's blessings and the people's strong resolve to survive, Bobolan bas ris-en from theasbes of Mount Pinatubo.

Year 2009 the town suffered again from the disastrous bypboors that bad caused massive damaged to nine (9) barangays namely Carael, Bafonla poc, Paco, San Miguel, Tampo, San Juan, Paudpod, Capaya-wan and Bangan. Many areas were affected such as in agriculture, fisbery, livelibood and infrastructure which includes tice fields submerged by Aood and labar, scouted roads, classrooms submerged by mud. destroyed irrigation canals, silted waterways and breached dike Some bouses were partially and totally damaged. Most of the families were affected. Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSND) through the belp of Local Government Unit (LGV) assisted flood victims by providing them low cost bousing and livelibood.

Botolan, in bet present set-up is a municipality that rose from thegloticus nest. This may be cred-ited to theableand proper leadership of those officials who were appointed as well as elected to govern the town.