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Rio Grande below Taos Junction Bridge near Taos, Nm

River gage · RIOTAONM · USGS 08276500 · Division 3 · Water District 20

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The record

Period of record
1925-10-01 → 2026-07-06
Daily values
36,804
Latest cached reading
178.0 cfs (2026-07-06)
Trend
no trend, -15.39 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 (5.0).

Provenance

DWR station abbreviation RIOTAONM; recorded station name “RIO GRANDE BLW TAOS JUNCTION BRIDGE NEAR TAOS, NM”; 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.