Escoma Municipality

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Escoma
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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 Coordinates: 15°37′0″S69°9′0″W / 15.61667°S 69.15000°W / -15.61667; -69.15000
Country Flag of Bolivia.svg Bolivia
Department La Paz Department
Province Eliodoro Camacho Province
FoundationFebruary 6, 2009
Seat Escoma
Elevation
13,000 ft (4,000 m)
Population
 (2001)
 • Total7,077
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]

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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:

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


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

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