NOVA FRIBURGO

city, east-central Rio de Janeiro estado (state), in eastern Brazil, on the Rio Grande in the Serra de Nova Friburgo, 2,776 feet (846 m) above sea level. Nova Friburgo has textile mills but is best known as a summer mountain resort built in Swiss Alpine style. It can be reached by railroad and highway from Niteri, southwest, and from Rio de Janeiro, the state capital. Pop. (1991 prelim.) mun., 166,941.