Official Name: | Escoma |
Settlement Type: | Municipality |
Pushpin Map: | Bolivia |
Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
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.
The municipality is divided into four cantons:
Canton | Inhabitants (2001)[3] | Seat |
---|---|---|
Escoma Canton | 5,097 | |
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.