Nutrioso is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Apache County, Arizona, United States.

[4] Nutrioso's name is derived from the Spanish word Nutria ("Otter").

[5][6][7] On August 2, 1776 Francisco Silvestre Vélez de Escalante wrote in his diary, "...we halted in a small plain on the bank of another arroyo which is called Rio de las Nutrias, because, although it is of permanent and running water, apparently during all or most of the year it stands in pools where they say beavers breed.

[11] Nutrioso rose in importance as Mormon refugees relocated here after other nearby settlements were attacked by Native American groups.

[10] Media related to Nutrioso, Arizona at Wikimedia Commons