Nova Prata
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| Nova Prata, Rio Grande do Sul | |
| Nickname: Capital Nacional do Basalto | |
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| State | Rio Grande do Sul |
| Government | |
| - Mayor | VITOR ANTONIO PLETSCH |
| Area | |
| - Total | 259.1 km² (100 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 820 m (2,690 ft) |
| Population (2007) | |
| - Total | 22.257 |
| Website: / www.novapratars.com.br | |
Nova Prata is a city in Rio Grande do Sul, south Brazil, situated in the state's mountainous Serra Gaúcha region. It bes situated a south latitude 28º47'02 " and to a longitude 51º36'36 " west, being to an altitude of 662 meters. Its population estimate in 2004 was of 20 021 inhabitants. It occupies an area of 259,15 km².
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[edit] Characteristics
Rocky formation: Basaltic Temperature: minim: 4°C; maximum e: 32°C Annual average: 17°C Population: 22.257 Date of Emancipation: 11 August 1924 City Headquarters: Alfredo Keys (today Veranópolis) Population in the Emancipation: 9,391 inhabitants, who formed 1,276 families Main economic activities: basalt, industry of transformation, steel mill, hortigranjeiros and furniture. Total collection of the city in 2000:11.563,936, 53
[edit] Tourism
With a population of approximately 21,000 inhabitants, Nova Prata is known as Capital National of the Basalt, for possessing 100 quarries more than.
In way the native bush of the Municipal Forest of the Cascade of the Plant, meets the Hidrotermal Complex Caldas de Prata, whose the water possess excellent medicinal and therapeutical properties, to a temperature of 41°C. Capital of the Basalt, Nova Prata periodically carries through the National Party of the Basalt, when the multiple utilities of this rock are presented, that, worked in sanders, they allow the use in pisos, walls and confections of pretty works of art, as the panels placed in the entrances of the city, that enchant the visitors for the art and the message that the history of the immigrants of the region counts. Perfect union of the nature with the creativity human being the service of well-being, the health and the leisure, the complex of thermal waters Caldas de Prata and the Cascade of the Plant are an invitation for tourist of all the ages.
New awaken Silver passions! The National Party of the Basalt, the International Festival of Folklore, the Party of Is João, the Christmas de Prata and the roundups, its main events, attract multitudes and transform Nova Prata into a world without borders, through the art, culture and knowledge. Its polo industrial counts on industries as Rubber Vipal S/A, Yoki Foods, industries of furniture, staple fibres.
[edit] Historical
Initially the territory of Nova Prata was integral part of the city of Alfredo Keys, today Veranópolis. Situated in the Colonial Microregion of the High Taquari, located in northeast, distant Superior Encosta 186 km of the capital of Porto Alegre, in an altitude of 820m, conserve its more authentic characteristics: the colonial properties, linguajar and the inherited customs of Italian immigration mainly, Pole, German, Portuguese and others in lesser number.
Nova Prata limits it:
- North: with Guabijú and Andres of Rocha
- South: with Vila Flores and Fagundes Varela
- West: with Nova Bassano, Nova Araçá and Vista Alegre do Prata
- East: with Protásio Alves.
With a population esteem of 22.257 (IBGE/2007) inhabitants, since early the agricultural activity if it united with the vegetal extrativismo, consubstanciado in the exploration of ervais and wood, this last one approximately became it main activity of the region until the decade of 60. Today, its strong dissecado structural relief, the great basalt deposits of the formation of the General Mountain range characterizes this area. The city of Nova Prata possess the headquarters administratively and a district: Rio Branco, the 8 km of the headquarters.
[edit] Demographics
Nova Prata, currently, with about 21.000 inhabitants, is constituted of descendants of the following immigrant peoples:
- Italians - 65%
- Poles - 10%
- Germans - 5%
- Portuguese and others - 20%
Nova Prata, diversified, thanks to Italian, Polish, German inheriting city, Arab, Portuguese, African the immigrants, and its descendants, present strong potentials very to evidence its cultural identity. As if it perceives, the presence of the deitalianos descendants is marcante, on the other hand, the local culture also reflects other origins. The Italian colonist cultivated its beautiful songs, its customs, the game of the deferred payment, bocha and the letters. These traditions still are found in Nova Prata in its more genuine and pure form. To discover and to develop the evidences of the cultural profiles of each etnia will signal prominence and auto affirmation for the people of this city.
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