Map - Nova Mutum (Nova Mutum)

Nova Mutum is a municipality in the state of Mato Grosso in the Central-West Region of Brazil. It belongs to micro Alto Teles Pires and meso Norte Mato-Grossense, a distance of 242 km north of Cuiabá, the state capital. Its population was estimated in 2020 by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics as 46,813 people.

The city has the MT: 3rd best (HDI) of the state, and the 8th-largest economy, with a GDP of R$2167526.000000 MT: 8 BR: 332. Much of its economy is focused on agriculture; the municipality is the second-largest state grain producer and one of the largest in Brazil, with an area of 410,000 ha of planted soybeans, as 3rd-largest exporter in Mato Grosso and 41st of Brazil. The magazine Isto É and Austin Rating pointed out that Nova Mutum is the 8th city of Brazil in the ranking of economic indicators, item "foreign trade", and placed 28th in the social indicator item "health" among the best municipalities in Brazil with population up to 50 thousand inhabitants.

Before being colonized, the region was known as "Irmandade" ("Brotherhood") and belonged to Jorge Rachid Jaudy. In 1966 a group of businessmen from São Paulo, captained by José Aparecido Ribeiro, acquired an extensive land area of approximately 169,000 ha in Diamantino, constituting the Mutum Agricultural S/A. They obtained the approval from SUDAM of the livestock project in an area of 120 thousand hectares. The project was finally implemented in 1981.

As the area was too big, there was the idea of creating opportunities for new pioneers, being developed as experiments with rice, corn and soybeans in 1974. Nova Mutum displaced for the first time the state Paraná in soybean production, won the title of Soy Capital.

The company then planned 100,000 ha to colonization, with the onset of fever of conquest of the Midwest and the last agricultural frontier of the country; the colonizing soon built in the early 10 houses and the matrix of colonizing an open village provisionally by tractor running machine. Then came a school and a community center, a health post, a shelter to house the buyers of land, and a hydroelectric plant for the initial energy. A basic infrastructure was built so the essentials could work. For the urban center were reserved 551 ha. Those who acquired a rural lot received two urban land. As the building infrastructure did not work on its own, people were hired to manage this basic infrastructure.

So came the first doctor, Dr. Kazan and the first nurse, Doroti Chagas. Primitivo Cury placed the first market, later sold to Mr. Francisco Saito, in the same place of the current Saito Supermarket. The first bus station operated in the community center rented by Reinaldo Baldissera, and the first grocery store was owned by Roberto Faccio. Not all batch buyers took them immediately. It was arriving according to its possibilities and correct in the sale of its possessions in the south of the country. All of the first inhabitants of the region came from Rio Grande do Sul and Santa Catarina, being practically all smallholders in the western two states.

Until early 2000, the city was predominantly southern, but with the release of the wonder of monoculture people from various regions of the country migrated to the city, especially after the arrival of multinational companies.