Barão de Cocais
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Key facts
- Country
- Brazil
- Region
- Southeast
- State
- Minas Gerais
- Founded
- 24 June 1704
- Mayor
- Décio Geraldo dos Santos ( PSB )
- Total
- 340.585 km (131.501 sq mi)
- Density
- 83.51/km (216.3/sq mi)
- Demonym
- cocaiense
- Time zone
- UTC−3 ( BRT )
- Postal code
- 35970-000 to 35983-999
- Hdi 2010
- 0.722 – high
- Website
- www .baraodecocais .mg .gov .br
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Encyclopedic overview
Barão de Cocais is a Brazilian municipality located in the state of Minas Gerais. Its population as of 2020 is estimated to be 32,866 people living in an altitude between 682 and 1425 meters. The area of the municipality is 340.675 square kilometres (131.535 sq mi). The city belongs to the mesoregion Metropolitana de Belo Horizonte and to the microregion of Itabira.
The municipality contains the Gongo Soco mine, once a gold mine and later a large iron ore operation, which closed in April 2016.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Barão de Cocais” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.