Nova Viçosa

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Nova Viçosa

Total population

39,509

Elevation65 m

Land area1326.12 km²

WeatherAvg high 82.3°F

Coordinates-17.89°, -39.37°

Demographic figures from IBGE. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

City facts

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Overview

Nova Viçosa is a municipality in the state of Bahia in the North-East region of Brazil. It was "discovered" in 1720 and became a municipality in 1962. The municipality contains part of the Cassurubá Extractive Reserve, a 100,768-hectare (249,000-acre) sustainable use conservation unit that protects an area of mangroves, river and sea where shellfish are harvested.

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Climate

10-year averages from ERA5 reanalysis (Open-Meteo).

Notable people from here

Lourival Assis

Brazilian association football player

F

Fernando da Costa Tourinho Filho

A

Antonio Silva Gomes

politician from Brazil

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

Nearby places in Bahia

• Ponta da Areia
  13.7 mi away
• Juerana
  15.8 mi away
• Helvécia
  20 mi away
• Alcobaça
  28 mi away · pop. 24,530
• Itabatã
  33.1 mi away · pop. 30,000
• Argolo
  42.7 mi away
• Nova Lídice
  48.7 mi away
• Ibiranhém
  52.8 mi away
• Santo Antônio de Barcelona
  55 mi away
• Cumuruxatiba
  55.2 mi away
• Cachoeira do Mato
  56.1 mi away
• Taquarinha
  57 mi away

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Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Books about Nova Viçosa

Costa das Baleias

José Maria Landim Dominguez · 2008

A futuridade no português rural negro-brasileiro

Deijair Ferreira da Silva · 2020

Mensagens Curtas 8

2016

Search results from Open Library.

Official Identifiers