Nova Candelária is a municipality in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, in southern Brazil. It is one of the many small municipalities that make up this state, which is Brazil's southernmost and borders Uruguay and Argentina.
The municipality had an estimated population of 2,688 as of 2020, making it a small and sparsely populated community by Brazilian standards. Like other municipalities in Rio Grande do Sul, it is administered locally as a município, the standard unit of local government in Brazil.
Detailed information about the town's founding, economy, and geography is limited, but it forms part of the broader settlement pattern of Rio Grande do Sul, a region with strong European immigrant heritage, particularly from Germany and Italy.