Nobres is a city in the state of

Mato Grosso Mato Grosso ( – ) is one of the states of Brazil, the List of Brazilian states by area, third largest by area, located in the Central-West Region, Brazil, Central-West region. The state has 1.66% of the Brazilian population and is responsible ...

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. It is located approximately 140 kilometers from

Cuiabá Cuiabá () is the capital city and the largest city of the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso. It is located near the geographical centre of South America and also forms the metropolitan area of Mato Grosso, along with the neighbouring town of Várz ...

on the south slopes of the Serra Azul. Tourists are encouraged to visit the region for its beautiful waterways and limestone caves.''Nobres Chapada Explorer''
/ref> The municipality contains the Gruta da Lagoa Azul State Park (Cave of the Blue Lagoon State Park), created in 1999. The rock deposits in the area have also been used to study post-glacial carbonates.''Chemostratigraphy of Ediacaran Post-Glacial Carbonates'' Figueiredo M.F. et al.
/ref> The municipality contains most of the Águas do Cuiabá Ecological Station, a fully protected conservation unit in the

cerrado The Cerrado () is a vast ecoregion of Tropics, tropical savanna in central Brazil, being present in the states of Goiás, Mato Grosso do Sul, Mato Grosso, Tocantins, Maranhão, Piauí, Bahia, Minas Gerais, São Paulo (state), São Paulo, Paraná ...

biome. In 2016, its population was estimated at 14.938 people. The two major religious faiths are

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and

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Municipalities in Mato Grosso {{MatoGrosso-geo-stub