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Arkansas River at La Junta

River gage · ARKLAJCO · USGS 07123000 · Division 2 · Water District 17 · Otero County

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The record

Period of record
1912-04-01 → 2026-07-06
Daily values
41,735
Latest cached reading
22.3 cfs (2026-07-06)
Trend
no trend, -0.29 cfs/decade (-0.2% of median)

Readings come from the weekly-refreshed cache, never fetched live — the date beside the value says exactly how fresh it is. The live gage is one click up.

Annual flow & trend

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Where it sits

Location as DWR records it (4.0).

Provenance

DWR station abbreviation ARKLAJCO; recorded station name “ARKANSAS RIVER AT LA JUNTA, CO”; operated by DWR. Daily flows from the DWR HydroBase snapshot plus CDSS REST updates, refreshed on the weekly cycle. Trend statistics are Mann-Kendall (Hamed-Rao corrected) with Sen's slope in native cfs, the same numbers as the basin Trends tab.