Escoma Municipality


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. Its seat is Escoma with 576 inhabitants in the year 2001.
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 Seat
Escoma Canton5,097Escoma
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.