Wołosate

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Wołosate
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Wołosate (Poland)
Wołosate
Wołosate
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Subcarpathian
Powiat : Bieszczadzki
Gmina : Lutowiska
Geographic location : 49 ° 3 '  N , 22 ° 42'  E Coordinates: 49 ° 3 '17 "  N , 22 ° 41' 43"  E
Residents : 44
Postal code : 38-714
Telephone code : (+48) 13
License plate : RBI



Wołosate is a village in the Lutowiska municipality in the Bieszczadzki powiat of the Subcarpathian Voivodeship in south-eastern Poland near the border with Ukraine .

Wołosate, first mentioned in 1557, is the southernmost inhabited place in Poland, located in the Bieszczady National Park in the Wołosaty river valley , about three kilometers north of the border with Ukraine and fifteen kilometers northwest of the southeastern tip of Poland, which is surrounded by the Ukraine. The village is located at the beginning of the provincial road 897 about 22 kilometers south of Lutowiska and 120 kilometers south-southeast of the voivodeship capital Rzeszów . In the north-east and east, three to five kilometers away, are the mountain ranges with the highest elevations of the Bieszczady, such as the Tarnica (1346), the Krzmień (1335) and the Halicz (1333 m).

The primeval fauna of the Bieszczady can be found in the surrounding forests. a. Bear, wolf and lynx.

Like all other settlements in the area, the place was depopulated after the Second World War in the course of the Ukrainian-Polish conflicts. In the 1970s, with the help of the army, after the recultivation of the valley, Hutsul horses were bred . Wołosate currently has 44 inhabitants.

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. http://www.stat.gov.pl/broker/access/prefile/listPreFiles.jspa