Nova Prata is a

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in the mountainous

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region of

Rio Grande do Sul Rio Grande do Sul (, , ; "Great River of the South") is a Federative units of Brazil, state in the South Region, Brazil, southern region of Brazil. It is the Federative_units_of_Brazil#List, fifth-most-populous state and the List of Brazilian st ...

, in southern

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. It is in the Guapore micro-region of the Nordeste Rio-Grandense meso-region of the state.

Geography

The city of Nova Prata is situated at about , at an altitude of 820 meters. The municipality occupies an area of 258.864 km² or 259 km². In 2020 the population was estimated to be 27,648. Temperature ranges from a minimum of 14 °C to a maximum of 28 °C with an annual average of 20 °C. Nova Prata is surrounded by the municipalities of:

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and

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to the north;

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and

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to the south;

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and

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to the west; and

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to the east.

Twin towns

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, Italy *

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, USA

References

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