Escoma Municipality

The municipality Escoma is an administrative district in the La Paz Department in the South American Andes State of Bolivia.

Location in near space

The municipality Escoma has been established by law in 2009 as an independent municipality and emerged from the cantons Escoma, Villa Puni, Collasuyo and Peninsula de Challapata who have been to 2009, four of nine cantons of the municipality of Puerto Acosta.

Today, the municipality is Escoma is one of five Municipalities of the province of Heliodorus Camacho and is located in the central part of the province. It is bordered to the northeast, north and west by the municipality of Puerto Acosta, on the south by Lake Titicaca, on the southeast by the municipality of Puerto Carabuco, and on the east by the municipality of Mocomoco.

The municipality consists of 31 Subkantonen ( vicecantones ) and has 83 localities ( Localidades ), the central location of the municipality is Escoma with 576 inhabitants ( 2001 census ) in the southeastern part of the municipios.

Geography

The municipality Escoma located on the Bolivian Altiplano at the western edge of the Cordillera Real.

The mean average temperature of the region is just under 9 ° C, the annual precipitation is about 850 mm (see climate chart Puerto Acosta ). The region has a pronounced diurnal climate on the monthly average temperatures vary only slightly between about 6 ° C in July and well 10 ° C from November to January. The monthly rainfall range from less than 15 mm from June to August and a humidity from December to March values ​​120-170 mm.

Population

The population of the municipality Escoma as the entire municipality of Puerto Acosta has hardly changed over the past two decades:

For the entire municipality of Puerto Acosta were at the last census from 2001, the following data:

  • The municipality had a population density of 33.2 inhabitants / km ², the life expectancy of newborns was 59.8 years, the infant mortality rate was 6.5 per cent ( 1992) rose to 7.4 percent in 2001.
  • The literacy rate for those over 15 years was 72.6 percent, and that 87.5 percent of men and 58.9 percent for women.
  • 51.1 percent of the population speak Spanish, 97.3 percent speak Aymara, Quechua and 0.2 percent.
  • 82.0 percent of the population have no access to electricity, 87.1 percent have no sanitary facilities.
  • 45.2 percent of households have a radio, a television 4.5 percent, 22.1 percent, a bicycle, a motorcycle 0.4 percent, 0.5 percent a car, a refrigerator 0.1 percent, and 0.2 percent a telephone.

Policy

Structure

The municipality is divided into the following four cantons ( cantones ):

  • Canton Collasuyo - 561 inhabitants ( 2001)
  • Canton Escoma - 5,097 inhabitants
  • Canton Peninsula de Challapata - 905 inhabitants
  • Canton Villa Puni - 514 inhabitants
Departamento La Paz Department (Bolivia) Eliodoro Camacho Province Municipios of Bolivia Cantons of Bolivia Puerto Acosta Municipality Puerto Carabuco Municipality Aymara language Movement for Socialism – Political Instrument for the Sovereignty of the Peoples Without Fear Movement National Unity Front
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