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La Plata River at the Colorado-New Mexico Stateline

River gage · LAPMEXCO · USGS 09366500 · Division 7 · Water District 33 · La Plata County

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The record

Period of record
1920-10-01 → 2026-07-06
Daily values
38,630
Latest cached reading
2.5 cfs (2026-07-06)
Trend
decreasing, -10.46 cfs/decade
Pettitt changepoint
~1999

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 (3).

Provenance

DWR station abbreviation LAPMEXCO; recorded station name “LA PLATA RIVER AT THE COLORADO-NEW MEXICO STATELINE”; 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.