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 | |
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Municipality | |
UAC Escoma | |
Escoma Location of the Umanata Municipality within Bolivia | |
| Coordinates: 15°37′0″S 69°9′0″W | |
| Country | Bolivia |
| Department | La Paz Department |
| Province | Eliodoro Camacho Province |
| Foundation | February 6, 2009 |
| Seat | Escoma |
| Elevation | 13,000 ft (4,000 m) |
| Population (2001) | |
| • Total | 7,077 |
| Time zone | UTC-4 (BOT) |
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.
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