Puerto Acosta Municipality

15°30′0″S 69°10′0″W / 15.50000°S 69.16667°W / -15.50000; -69.16667Country BoliviaDepartmentLa Paz DepartmentProvinceEliodoro Camacho ProvinceSeatPuerto AcostaGovernment • MayorFreddy Surco Toledo (2007) • PresidentBraulio Quispe Condori (2007)Area • Total322 sq mi (833 km²)Elevation13,000 ft (4,000 m)Population • Total27,296Time zoneUTC-4 (BOT)

Puerto Acosta Municipality is the first municipal section of the Eliodoro Camacho Province in the La Paz Department in Bolivia. Its seat is Puerto Acosta. At the time of census 2001 the municipality had a population of 27,296,^[1] still including Umanata and Escoma as cantons.

Cantons

There are four cantons in the municipality: Puerto Acosta, Parajachi, Chiñaya and San Juan de Cancanani. Until 2009 the municipality consisted of nine cantons (cantones):

Canton	Inhabitants (2001)[2]	Seat	Inhabitants (2001)
Puerto Acosta Canton	6,745	Puerto Acosta	1,123
Umanata Canton (now: Umanata Municipality)	6,447	Umanata	192
Escoma Canton (now in Escoma Municipality)	5,097	Escoma	576
Challapata Peninsula Canton (now in Escoma Municipality)	905	Challapata	-
Parajachi Canton or Puerto Parajachi Canton	2,245	Parajachi	-
Villa Puni Canton (now in Escoma Municipality)	514	Villa Puni	329
Collasuyo Canton (now in Escoma Municipality)	561	Collasuyo	22
Chiñaya Canton	3,296	Chiñaya	150
San Juan de Cancanani Canton	1,486	San Juan de Cancanani	172

On February 6, 2009 ^[3] Umanata Municipality became the fourth municipal section of the Eliodoro Camacho Province with Umanata as its seat and Escoma Municipality became the fifth one with Escoma as its seat. The four cantons Escoma, Villa Puni, Collasuyo and Challapata Peninsula (Península de Challapata), formerly cantons of the Puerto Acosta Municipality, today make up the Escoma Municipality.^[4]

References

External links

• Population data of Puerto Acosta Municipality in 2001 and map (still including Escoma Canton and Umanata Canton)