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. www.bolivia.com (Spanish) Its seat is Escoma with 576 inhabitants in the year 2001.National Institute of Statistics of Bolivia (Spanish)
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) www.ine.gov.bo 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
External links Population data of Puerto Acosta Municipality in 2001 and map (still including Escoma Canton and Umanata Canton)