Nutrioso is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Apache County, Arizona, United States. Nutrioso is located on U.S. Route 180 and U.S. Route 191, 12 miles south-southeast of Eagar. Nutrioso has a post office with ZIP code 85932. As of the 2010 census, the population was 26.

What does nutrioso mean in English?

It was populated by Mormon farmers. ORIGIN OF NAME: Nutrioso is a combination of two Spanish words, nutria and oso. Oso means bear and nutria refers to a beaver-like animal from South America. There are a lot of beavers and bears in Nutrioso.

How did nutrioso get its name?

Nutrioso's name is derived from the Spanish word Nutria ("Otter"). The early Spanish colonists referred to beaver as "nutria", perhaps because the Eurasian beaver had been extinct in Spain since the 17th century.