Wautec is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Humboldt County, California, United States. It is located within the Yurok Indian Reservation, in the valley of the Klamath River northeast (downstream) of Weitchpec.
As of the 2020 census, Wautec had a population of 48.
Wautec first appeared as a census designated place in the 2020 U.S. census.