Escoma Municipality

Escoma
Municipality
UAC Escoma
Escoma Location of the Umanata Municipality within Bolivia
Coordinates: 15°37′0″S69°9′0″W / 15.61667°S 69.15000°W / -15.61667; -69.15000
Country	Bolivia
Department	La Paz Department
Province	Eliodoro Camacho Province
Foundation	February 6, 2009
Seat	Escoma
Elevation	13,000 ft (4,000 m)
Population  (2001)
• Total	7,077
Time zone	UTC-4 (BOT)

Escoma Municipality is the fifth municipal section of the Eliodoro Camacho Province in the La Paz Department in Bolivia. It was created on February 6, 2009. Until then this area was part of the Viacha Municipality. ^[1] Its seat is Escoma with 576 inhabitants in the year 2001. ^[2]

Escoma Municipality is situated in the Altiplano on the western edge of the Cordillera Real. It is bordered to the north-east, north and west by the Puerto Acosta Municipality, to the south by Lake Titicaca, to the south-east by the Puerto Carabuco Municipality and to the east by the Mocomoco Municipality.

Division

The municipality is divided into four cantons:

Canton	Inhabitants (2001) [3]	Seat
Escoma Canton	5,097	Escoma
Challapata Peninsula Canton	905	Challapata
Collasuyo Canton	561	Collasuyo
Villa Puni Canton	514	Villa Puni

Formerly all these cantons which now make up the Escoma Municipality belonged to the Viacha Municipality.

References

1. www.bolivia.com (Spanish)
2. National Institute of Statistics of Bolivia Archived September 24, 2011, at the Wayback Machine (Spanish)
3. www.ine.gov.bo Archived November 13, 2009, at the Wayback Machine

External links

• Population data of Puerto Acosta Municipality in 2001 and map (still including Escoma Canton and Umanata Canton)