[2][3][4][5] Located 242 kilometers (150 miles) north of Cuiabá, the state capital, it belongs to the Alto Teles Pires microregion and Norte Mato-Grossense mesoregion.

In 1966 a group of businessmen from São Paulo, headed by José Aparecido Ribeiro, acquired an extensive land area of approximately 169,000 hectares (420,000 acres) in Diamantino, constituting the Mutum Agricultural S/A.

Then came a school and a community center, a health centre, a shelter to house the buyers of land, and a hydroelectric plant for the initial energy.

The first bus station operated out of the community center was rented by Reinaldo Baldissera, and the first grocery store was owned by Roberto Faccio.

Nova Mutum is the second-largest state grain producer and one of the largest in Brazil, with an area of 410,000 ha (1,000,000 acres) of soybeans planted.

In industry, the city has Bunge Alimentos S/a (largest soybean crusher in Latin America), refrigerators as Perdigão Brazil Foods – BRF (which will be covered with a turnover of more investments to R$100 million reais) that generates around 2,500 jobs, Excelência carne suína (pig slaughtering and industrialization of derived products, high quality, with 21,250 square metres (228,700 sq ft) of constructed area, currently generating around 3,000 direct and indirect jobs.

Nova Mutum is a regional industrial qualification center; the municipality has a unit from Senai(a private industrial education provider) that offers more than four thousand places in professional education courses in the areas of Food and Beverage, Construction, Management, Health, Safety at Work, Information Technology and Automotive.

The unit is the most modern and sustainable in the State, being a reference point in architecture, design and sustainability, with a total area of 4,824.63 m2 (1.19 acres) that includes computer labs, microcomputer maintenance, cutting and sewing, baking, electrical and automation, maintenance, mechanical and machine shop.

The city has a campus of the State University of Mato Grosso (UNEMAT), which provides management courses, accounting and agronomy.

The information is based on the results of the 2010 Demographic Census, conducted by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE).

According to an estimate by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), Nova Mutum for 2016 had a population of 41,178, and is controversial due to the increase of more than 11.36% per year.

The population explosion of Nova Mutum occurred when the municipality managed to reconcile agricultural production with industrialization, a fact that motivated the installation of hundreds of companies.

Typography: The relief of Nova Mutum is characterized by being flat, with slope not greater than 3% and constitutes part of the Chapada dos Parecis.

Nova Mutum has a typical Mato Grosso tropical savanna climate (Köppen Aw).