Hydrohistorian
Purgatoire River below Highland Dam near Las Animas
River gage · PURHILCO · Division 2 · Water District 17 · Bent County
The record
Period of record
2000-10-01 → 2026-07-06
Daily values
9,410
Latest cached reading
0.7 cfs (2026-07-06)
Trend
no trend, -2.25 cfs/decade (-6.9% 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 (5.0).
Provenance
DWR station abbreviation PURHILCO; recorded station name “PURGATOIRE RIVER BLW HIGHLAND DAM NR LAS ANIMAS”; 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.