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
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Brazil
- Demonym
- cocaiense
- Country
- Brazil
- Located in
- Minas Gerais
- Population
- 20291
- Area
- 340.675
- Elevation
- 1163
- Time zone
- UTC−03:00
- Shares border with
- São Gonçalo do Rio Abaixo
- Official website
- www.baraodecocais.mg.gov.br
- Image
- Vista aérea de Barão de Cocais.jpg
- Dialing code
- 31
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- Commons category
- Barão de Cocais
- Human Development Index
- 0.757
- postal code
- 35970-000 a 35983-999
- electorate
- 20596
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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.