Escoma Municipality Explained

Official Name:Escoma
Settlement Type:Municipality
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Pushpin Map Caption:Location of the Umanata Municipality within Bolivia
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name: Bolivia
Subdivision Type1:Department
Subdivision Name1:La Paz Department
Subdivision Type2:Province
Subdivision Name2:Eliodoro Camacho Province
Seat Type:Seat
Established Title:Foundation
Established Date:February 6, 2009
Unit Pref:Imperial
Population As Of:2001
Population Total:7077
Population Blank1 Title:Ethnicities
Population Blank2 Title:Religions
Timezone:BOT
Utc Offset:-4
Coordinates:-15.6167°N -69.15°W
Elevation M:4000

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:

CantonInhabitants (2001)[3] Seat
Escoma Canton5,097
Challapata Peninsula Canton905Challapata
Collasuyo Canton561Collasuyo
Villa Puni Canton514Villa Puni

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

External links

Notes and References

  1. http://www.bolivia.com/noticIAS/AutoNoticias/DetalleNoticia42293.asp www.bolivia.com
  2. http://www.ine.gob.bo National Institute of Statistics of Bolivia
  3. http://www.ine.gov.bo www.ine.gov.bo