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Purgatoire River at Madrid

River gage · PURMADCO · USGS 07124200 · Division 2 · Water District 19 · Las Animas County

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The record

Period of record
1972-03-01 → 2026-07-06
Daily values
19,851
Latest cached reading
2.0 cfs (2026-07-06)
Trend
no trend, -1.57 cfs/decade (-2.4% 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).

Provenance

DWR station abbreviation PURMADCO; recorded station name “PURGATOIRE RIVER AT MADRID, CO.”; operated by USGS. 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.