Escoma Municipality is the fifth municipal section of the

Eliodoro Camacho Province Eliodoro Camacho is a province in the La Paz Department in Bolivia situated at Lake Titicaca. Its seat is Puerto Acosta. Camacho Province is situated in the western region of the La Paz Department bordered to the north by the Muñecas Province, t ...

in the La Paz Department in

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. It was created on February 6, 2009. Until then this area was part of the

Viacha Municipality Viacha Municipality is the first municipal section of the Ingavi Province in the La Paz Department, Bolivia. Its seat is Viacha. Division The municipality is subdivided into seven cantons: *Chacoma Irpa Grande - 1,247 inhabitants (2001) *Ge ...

. Its seat is

Escoma Escoma is a location in the La Paz Department in Bolivia. It is the seat of the Escoma Municipality, one of five municipalities of the Eliodoro Camacho Province Eliodoro Camacho is a province in the La Paz Department in Bolivia situated at Lak ...

with 576 inhabitants in the year 2001.National Institute of Statistics of Bolivia
(Spanish) Escoma Municipality is situated in the

Altiplano The Altiplano (Spanish for "high plain"), Collao (Quechua and Aymara: Qullaw, meaning "place of the Qulla") or Andean Plateau, in west-central South America, is the most extensive high plateau on Earth outside Tibet. The plateau is located at the ...

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 Lake Titicaca (; es, Lago Titicaca ; qu, Titiqaqa Qucha) is a large freshwater lake in the Andes mountains on the border of Bolivia and Peru. It is often called the highest navigable lake in the world. By volume of water and by surface area, ...

, to the south-east by the Puerto Carabuco Municipality and to the east by the

Mocomoco Municipality Mocomoco or Muqu Muqu (Aymara) is one of five municipalities of the Eliodoro Camacho Province in the La Paz Department in Bolivia , image_flag = Bandera de Bolivia (Estado).svg , flag_alt = Horizontal tricolor ( ...

Division

The municipality is divided into four

canton Canton may refer to: Administrative division terminology * Canton (administrative division), territorial/administrative division in some countries, notably Switzerland * Township (Canada), known as ''canton'' in Canadian French Arts and ent ...

s: 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) {{La Paz Department Municipalities of La Paz Department (Bolivia)