Novo Cabrais is a municipality in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, in southern Brazil. Rio Grande do Sul is Brazil's southernmost state, and its municipalities form the third level of local government below the state and the federal union.
As a municipality, Novo Cabrais is an administrative unit with its own local government, typically headed by a mayor (prefeito) and a municipal council (câmara de vereadores), and it is grouped with neighbouring municipalities into one of the state's statistical and planning regions. The seat of the municipality is the town of the same name.
Detailed published information about the municipality's area, population, founding date, and economy is limited in the available reference material, so only these basic facts can be stated with confidence.