| Barão de Cocais | |
| Settlement Type: | Municipality |
| Official Name: | Municipality of Barão de Cocais |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Type1: | Region |
| Subdivision Type2: | State |
| Subdivision Name: |  Brazil |
| Subdivision Name1: | Southeast |
| Established Title: | Founded |
| Established Date: | 24 June 1704 |
| Leader Title: | Mayor |
| Leader Name: | Décio Geraldo dos Santos (PSB) |
| Area Total Km2: | 340.585 |
| Population As Of: | 2021 |
| Population Total: | 33,232 |
| Population Density Km2: | 83.51 |
| Population Footnotes: | [1] |
| Population Demonym: | cocaiense |
| Timezone: | BRT |
| Utc Offset: | -3 |
| Postal Code Type: | Postal Code |
| Postal Code: | 35970-000 to 35983-999 |
| Blank Name: | HDI (2010) |
| Blank Info: | 0.722 – high[2] |
Barão de Cocais is a Brazilian municipality located in the state of Minas Gerais. Its population is estimated to be 32,866 people living in an altitude between 682 and 1425 meters.[3] The area of the municipality is . 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.