Wołosate

Wołosate is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Lutowiska in the powiat Bieszczadzki the Subcarpathian Voivodeship in south-eastern Poland, close to the border with Ukraine.

The first mentioned in 1557 Wołosate is the southernmost inhabited place in Poland, located in the Bieszczady National Park in the river valley of the Wołosaty, about 3 km north of the border with Ukraine and 15 km north-west of the southeast lobe of Poland, which is enclosed by Ukraine. The village is located at the beginning of the province road 897 about 22 km south of Lutowiska and 120km south-southeast of the voivodship Rzeszów. In the north- east and east are in 3 to 5 kilometers, the mountain ranges with the highest peaks of the Bieszczady as the Tarnica ( 1346 ), the Krzmień ( 1335) and the Halicz ( 1333 m).

In the surrounding forests we find the primordial fauna of the Bieszczady, including Bear, wolf and lynx.

The place was deserted as all the other settlements of the area after the Second World War as part of the Ukrainian-Polish conflict. In the 1970s, originated with the help of the army, after the restoration of the valley a breed of Huzulenpferden. Wołosate currently has 44 inhabitants.