Nutrioso is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Apache County, Arizona, United States. Nutrioso is located upon U.S. Route 180 and U.S. Route 191, 12 miles (19 km) south-southeast of Eagar. Nutrioso has a broadcast office similar to ZIP code 85932. As of the 2010 census, the population was 26.

Nutrioso’s broadcast is derived from the Spanish word Nutria (“Otter”). The further on Spanish colonists referred to beaver as “nutria”, perhaps because the Eurasian beaver had been extinct in Spain before the 17th century. On August 2, 1776 Francisco Silvestre Vélez de Escalante wrote in his diary, “…we halted in a little plain upon the bank of option arroyo which is called Rio de las Nutrias, because, although it is of enduring and dealing out water, apparently during anything or most of the year it stands in pools where they say beavers breed.” The first settlers in the area either killed an otter and a bear (Oso in Spanish) and took the reveal from that incident, killed a beaver and a bear and changed the term “Nutria” or killed just a beaver and used the term “Nutrioso” to mean “Of Beavers”.

Nutrioso rose in importance as Mormon refugees relocated here after other handy settlements were attacked by Native American groups. By 1880, a fort had been constructed, and by 1883 a proclaim office was established.

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