Santa Bárbara do Leste is a municipality in the state of Minas Gerais, in the Southeast region of Brazil. It is one of the many municipalities that make up Minas Gerais, Brazil's fourth-largest state by area and its second-most populous.
The municipality is located in the interior of Minas Gerais, a state whose economy and settlement patterns have historically been tied to mining, agriculture, and cattle raising. Like other municipalities in the state, Santa Bárbara do Leste is administered by a local municipal government, with its own elected executive and legislative bodies.
Detailed information on the municipality's population, area, founding date, elevation, and local economy is limited in the available source material, so those specifics are not covered here.