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(Redirected from Embudo River) River in New Mexico, United States
Embudo Creek
The mesas from which the name is derived can be seen in the background.
Embudo Creek is located in New MexicoEmbudo CreekLocation of mouth
Location
CountryUnited States
StateNew Mexico
Physical characteristics
Source 
 • locationNorth Truchas Peak
 • elevation13,024 ft (3,970 m)
Mouth 
 • locationEmbudo
 • coordinates36°12′54″N 105°55′08″W / 36.215°N 105.919°W / 36.215; -105.919
 • elevation5,800 ft (1,800 m)
Basin size305 sq mi (790 km)
Discharge 
 • locationDixon
 • average80.3 cfs (1924-2013)
 • minimum12.8 cfs (1951)
 • maximum235 cfs (1941)
Basin features
River systemRio Grande
Tributaries 
 • leftRio de las Trampas

Embudo Creek also known as Rio Embudo is a river formed by the confluence of the Rio Pueblo and Santa Barbara Creek near Peñasco in Taos County, New Mexico. The Embudo (named after the Spanish word meaning “funnel”) empties into the Rio Grande near the community of Embudo between two distinctively shaped buttes, thus creating a funnel effect after which it is named. Before emptying into the Rio Grande the river flows through Dixon in Rio Arriba County.

Geography

The origins of Embudo Creek are in headwaters streams, the Rio Pueblo, Rio Santa Barbara, and Rio de los Trampas near North Truchas Peak,13,024 ft (3,970 m), Jicarita Peak, 12,835 ft (3,912 m), and Trampas Peak, 12,172 ft (3,710 m), in the southern Sangre de Cristo Mountains. The headwaters of the Truchas and Santa Barbara rivers are in the Pecos Wilderness. All the rivers flow northwest and the Pueblo and Santa Barbara unite at Picuris Pueblo. The river below their union is called Embudo Creek. The Las Trampas joins the Embudo further downstream. The watershed of the Embubo and its tributaries is 28 miles (45 km) east to west and a maximum of 16 miles (26 km) north to south. The length of the Embudo from the junction of the Pueblo and Santa Barbara rivers to where the Embudo joins the Rio Grande is about 9 miles (14 km). The elevation of the Embudo where it joins the Rio Grande is about 5,800 ft (1,800 m).

Most of the Embudo watershed is located in Taos County but it laps over into Rio Arriba County. The area of the watershed is 305 sq mi (790 km). No incorporated towns or cities are in the watershed, but there are several communities: Dixon, Trampas, Peñasco, and the Picurus Pueblo are the largest. Irrigated agriculture is extensive around these communities.

Gallery

  • The Rio Embudo passing through the box canyon that bears its name. The Rio Embudo passing through the box canyon that bears its name.
  • View of the mesa in 1885 View of the mesa in 1885
  • similar view ca. 2008 similar view ca. 2008

See also

References

  1. ^ "Embudo Creek at Dixon NM" (PDF). Water Data Report. U.S. Geological Service.
  2. Pearce, T.M., ed. ‘’New Mexico Place Names: A Geographical Dictionary’’, University of New Mexico Press,Albuquerque NM 1965
  3. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Embudo Creek
  4. Arellano, Juan Estevan (2010). "Embudo de Picuris Watershed" (PDF). Environmental Health Consultants. pp. 118–120. Retrieved 26 December 2024.
  5. Arellano 2010, pp. 118–120.
  6. Jansens, Jan-Willem (2019). "Projecto Embudo de Agua Sagrado" (PDF). New Mexico Environmental Association. p. 8. Retrieved 26 December 2024.



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