Mato Grosso
Mato Grosso is a state in the Central West of Brazil. The state is home of important landscapes of the Amazon and the Pantanal.Photo: Filipefrazao, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Cuiabá and Rondonópolis.
Cuiabá
Photo: Mateus Hidalgo, CC BY-SA 2.5 br.
Cuiabá is the capital city and the largest city of the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso. It is located near the geographical centre of South America and also forms the metropolitan area of Mato Grosso, along with the neighbouring town of Várzea Grande.
Rondonópolis
Rondonópolis is the third-largest municipality in Mato Grosso, Brazil. It is located around 215 km from Cuiabá, the capital of the state. The city is named for military officer and explorer Cândido Rondon.Barra do Garças
Photo: Túllio F, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Barra do Garças is in Mato Grosso, at the border with Goiás, where the Garças river flows into the mighty Araguaia.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Várzea Grande and Cáceres.
Várzea Grande
Photo: Guilmann, Public domain.
Várzea Grande is a city in the state of Mato Grosso, Brazil. It is the second largest municipality in the state.
Cáceres
Photo: Túllio F, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Cáceres is a municipality in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso. It covers an area of 24,000 km2 and as of 2022 had an estimated population of 89,681. The town is sited on the Paraguay River, and hosts a popular fishing festival each September.
Alta Floresta
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Alta Floresta is a city in the Brazilian state Mato Grosso. It's located at the southern edge of the Amazon rain forest and is a popular eco-tourism destination.
Tangará da Serra
Photo: José Henrique Kautzmann, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Tangará da Serra is a municipality in the state of Mato Grosso in the Central-West Region of Brazil. The Sepotuba River, known for its many waterfalls and rapids, is located near Tangará da Serra. The city is served by Tangará da Serra Airport.
Chapada dos Guimarães
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Chapada dos Guimarães is a city in Mato Grosso do Norte, Brazil. This region, which is at the geographical center of South America, is known for its waterfalls and characteristic mountains and canyons.
Pantanal Matogrossense National Park
Photo: Filipefrazao, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Pantanal Matogrossense National Park is a protected natural area of swamplands and seasonally flooded grasslands in the western Brazilian state of Mato Grosso.
Photo: Edmilson sanches, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Mato Grosso
- Type: federative unit of Brazil with 3,480,000 residents
- Description: state in the Central-West Region of Brazil
- Also known as: “Mato Grosso State” and “MT”
- Neighbors: Amazonas, Goiás, Mato Grosso do Sul, Pará, Rondônia, Santa Cruz, and Tocantins
- Location: Central West, Brazil, South America
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Mato Grosso” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Mato Grosso”
- Afrikaans: “Mato Grosso”
- Albanian: “Mato Grosso”
- Amharic: “ማቶ ግሮሶ”
- Arabic: “ماتو جروسو”
- Arabic: “ماتو غروسو”
- Aragonese: “Mato Grosso”
- Armenian: “Մատու Գրոսու”
- Asturian: “Mato Grosso”
- Aymara: “Mato Grosso Istadu”
- Azerbaijani: “Matu-Qrosu”
- Basque: “Mato Grosso”
- Bavarian: “Mato Grosso”
- Belarusian: “Мату-Гросу”
- Belarusian: “штат Мату-Гросу”
- Bengali: “মাতো গ্রসো”
- Bishnupriya: “মাটো গ্রসো”
- Bosnian: “Mato Grosso”
- Breton: “Mato Grosso”
- Bulgarian: “Мато Гросо”
- Bulgarian: “Мату Гросу”
- Catalan: “Mato Grosso”
- Cebuano: “Mato Grosso”
- Chinese: “Mato Grosso”
- Chinese: “馬托格羅索州”
- Chinese: “马托格罗索州”
- Cornish: “Mato Grosso”
- Crimean Tatar: “Matu Grosu”
- Crimean Tatar: “Matu-Grosu”
- Croatian: “Mato Grosso”
- Czech: “Mato Grosso”
- Czech: “Matto Grosso”
- Danish: “Mato Grosso”
- Dutch: “Mato Grosso”
- Esperanto: “Mato Grosso”
- Esperanto: “Mato-Groso”
- Esperanto: “Matogroso”
- Estonian: “Mato Grosso osariik”
- Estonian: “Mato Grosso”
- Finnish: “Mato Grosso”
- French: “Mato Grosso”
- French: “Mato-Grosso”
- Galician: “Mato Groso”
- Galician: “Mato Grosso”
- Georgian: “მატუ-გროსუ”
- German: “Estado de Mato Grosso”
- German: “Mato Grosso”
- German: “MT”
- Greek: “Μάτο Γκρόσο”
- Guarani: “Mato Grosso”
- Guarani: “Máto Gyróso”
- Gujarati: “મેટો ગ્રોસો”
- Hausa: “Mato Grosso”
- Hebrew: “מאטו גרוסו”
- Hindi: “मातो ग्रोसो”
- Hindi: “मैटो ग्रोसो”
- Hungarian: “Mato Grosso”
- Icelandic: “Mato Grosso”
- Ido: “Mato Grosso”
- Indonesian: “Mato Grosso”
- Interlingua: “Mato Grosso”
- Irish: “Mato Grosso”
- Italian: “Mato Grosso”
- Italian: “MT”
- Japanese: “マット・グロッソ州”
- Japanese: “マットグロッソ州”
- Japanese: “マト・グロッソ州”
- Japanese: “マトグロッソ州”
- Javanese: “Mato Grosso”
- Kannada: “ಮ್ಯಾಟೊ ಗ್ರೊಸೊ”
- Kazakh: “Мату-Гроссу”
- Kazakh: “Мату-Гросу”
- Kirghiz: “Мату Гросу”
- Korean: “마투 그로수 주”
- Korean: “마투그로수주”
- Ladino: “Mato Grosso”
- Latin: “civitas Matogrossensis”
- Latin: “Civitas Matogrossensis”
- Latin: “Silva Crassa”
- Latvian: “Matugrosa”
- Latvian: “Matugrosu”
- Limburgan: “Mato Grosso”
- Lithuanian: “Mato Grosas”
- Lithuanian: “Matu Grosu”
- Luxembourgish: “Mato Grosso”
- Macedonian: “Мато Гросо”
- Macedonian: “Мату Гросу”
- Malagasy: “Mato Grosso”
- Malay: “Mato Grosso”
- Marathi: “मातो ग्रोसो”
- Marathi: “मातो ग्रोस्सो”
- Mazanderani: “ماتو گروسو”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Mato Grosso”
- Northern Frisian: “Mato Grosso”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Mato Grosso”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Matto Grosso”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mato Grosso”
- Norwegian: “Mato Grosso”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Mato Grosso”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Þicbusċia”
- Oromo: “Mato Grosso”
- Ossetian: “Мату-Гросу”
- Panjabi: “ਮਾਤੋ ਗ੍ਰੌਸੋ”
- Persian: “ماتو گروسو”
- Piemontese: “Mato Gross”
- Piemontese: “Mato Gròss”
- Piemontese: “Mato Grosso”
- Polish: “Mato Grosso”
- Portuguese: “Estado de Mato Grosso”
- Portuguese: “Mato Grosso”
- Portuguese: “MT”
- Pushto: “ماتو گروسو”
- Quechua: “Mato Grosso suyu”
- Romanian: “Mato Grosso”
- Russian: “Мату-Гросу”
- Scots: “Mato Grosso”
- Serbian: “Мато Гросо”
- Serbian: “Мату Гросу”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Mato Grosso”
- Sinhala: “මටෝ ග්රෝසෝ ප්රාන්තය, බ්රසීලය”
- Sinhala: “මටෝ ග්රෝසෝ”
- Slovak: “Mato Grosso”
- Slovenian: “Mato Grosso”
- Slovenian: “MT”
- Somali: “Mato Grosso”
- Spanish: “Estado de Mato Grosso”
- Spanish: “Mato Grosso”
- Spanish: “Matorral Grueso”
- Spanish: “Matorral Gruesso”
- Spanish: “Matorral Guesso”
- Swahili: “Mato Grosso”
- Swedish: “Mato Grosso”
- Tajik: “Мату Гросу”
- Tajik: “Мату-Гросу”
- Tamil: “மடோ குரோசோ”
- Tamil: “மாடோ கிரோஸோ”
- Tatar: “Мату-Гросу”
- Telugu: “మాటో గ్రోసో”
- Tetum: “Mato Grosso”
- Thai: “รัฐมาตูโกรซู”
- Thai: “รัฐมาตูโกรสซู”
- Turkish: “BR-MT”
- Turkish: “Estado de Mato Grosso”
- Turkish: “Mato Grosso (eyalet)”
- Turkish: “Mato Grosso eyaleti”
- Turkish: “Mato Grosso”
- Turkish: “MT”
- Ukrainian: “Мату-Гроссу”
- Ukrainian: “Мату-Ґроссу”
- Ukrainian: “Мату-Гросу”
- Ukrainian: “Мату-Ґросу”
- Ukrainian: “Штат Мату-Гросу”
- Urdu: “ماتو گروسو”
- Uzbek: “Matu-Grosu”
- Venetian: “Mato Groso”
- Venetian: “Mato Grosso”
- Vietnamese: “Mato Grosso”
- Volapük: “Mato Grosso”
- Waray (Philippines): “Mato Grosso”
- Welsh: “Mato Grosso”
- Western Panjabi: “ماتو گروسو”
- Wu Chinese: “马托格罗索州”
- Yoruba: “Mato Grosso”
- Yue Chinese: “馬托格羅索州”
- “BR-MT”
- “ma Mato Grosso”
- “ma Matu Kosu”
- “ma Matu Losu”
- “ma Matukosu”
- “ma Matulosu”
- “Mato Grosso”
- “MT”
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