[2] The woreda is culturally homogeneous with Welayta-speaking people, though a small but active minority of Protestant and Catholic converts formed a sub-culture.
It found that Bolosso is "the beneficiary of many years of infrastructural and extension service by the Wollaita Agricultural Development Unit".
In a 1971 survey about 30% of Bolosso households did not use ox-drawn ploughs for cultivation; ten years later, 52% of the peasants interviewed did not own oxen.
[1] Prime Minister Tamirat Layne on 1 June 1994 began touring villages affected by famine in Boloso Sore.
The majority of the inhabitants practiced Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity, with 60.23% of the population reporting they professed that belief, while 33.2% were Protestants, and 4.91% were Roman Catholic.