Pohorelá (Hungarian: Koháryháza, German: Pohorella) is a village and municipality in the Brezno District, of the Banská Bystrica Region of central Slovakia.

[5] Important geographical points in the vicinity of the village are Ždiar Saddle, Orlová Peak, Andrejcová Hill, Mašianske skalky nature reserve and the Pohorelá uplands.

A rare archaeological finding of a barbarian hoard from the Early Iron Age (Balas 1960,70) was found within the town limits - probably an excavation of the Puchov culture.

The village was founded at the beginning of the seventeenth century under the Vlach law, on the estate lands of Muráň Castle.

The construction of houses for workers of the Pohorelá ironworks established the current neighboring settlement of Pohorelská Maša.

After extensive modernization, the Pohorelá complex became the most important iron producer in what was then the Hungarian county of Gömör és Kishont.

The Velvet Revolution came to the area when a local chapter of the Public Against Violence(VPN) was formed in the village in early December 1989.

[7] According to data from the Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic, as of December 31, 2012, the village was inhabited by 2,293 people, including 1,225 women and 1,068 men.

[8] In 2001, the distribution of the population by nationality and ethnicity was as follows:[9] The religious demographics were as follows in 2001:[9] The village of Pohorelá is an independent territorial self-governing and administrative unit of the Slovak Republic.