Barão_de_Cocais

Barão de Cocais

Barão de Cocais

Municipality in Southeast, Brazil

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.[3] 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.

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The municipality contains the Gongo Soco mine, once a gold mine and later a large iron ore operation, which closed in April 2016.[4]

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References

  1. [1]
    "IBGE Barão de Cocais". IBGE. Retrieved 10 April 2022.
  2. [2]
    "Archived copy" (PDF). United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Archived from the original (PDF) on July 8, 2014. Retrieved August 1, 2013.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. [3]
    IBGE 2020
  4. [4]
    Mina de Gongo Soco, em Barão de Cocais, encerra atividades (in Portuguese), 22 April 2016, archived from the original on 20 October 2018, retrieved 2016-08-12

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