Pecos River

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Pecos River
Pecos River shortly before it flows into the Rio Grande, where it is dammed by the Amistad Reservoir

Pecos River shortly before it flows into the Rio Grande, where it is dammed by the Amistad Reservoir

Data
Water code US1384150
location New Mexico , Texas (USA)
River system Rio Grande
Drain over Rio Grande  → Gulf of Mexico
source At Santa Fe, New Mexico,
35 ° 58 ′ 34 ″  N , 105 ° 33 ′ 29 ″  W.
muzzle In the Rio Grande coordinates: 29 ° 41 ′ 59 "  N , 101 ° 22 ′ 17"  W 29 ° 41 ′ 59 "  N , 101 ° 22 ′ 17"  W.
Mouth height 341  m

length 1490 km
Catchment area 114,700 km²
Runoff at Langtry, Texas
A Eo gauge: 114,700 km²
NNQ
MQ
Mq
HHQ
1 m³ / s
8 m³ / s
0.1 l / (s km²)
4330 m³ / s
Right tributaries Rio Hondo , Rio Felix
Reservoirs flowed through Sumner Reservoir , McMillan Reservoir , Red Bluff Reservoir
Small towns Carlsbad , Pecos

The Pecos has its source near Santa Fe in the US state of New Mexico and flows over 1,490 km through the eastern part of this state and neighboring Texas before it flows into the Rio Grande near Del Rio . The river drains an area of ​​114,700 km².

The river is dammed in Avalon and McMillan to help irrigate around 101 km² of land as part of the Carlsbad reclamation project founded in 1906 . In the western part of Texas, the river is also dammed by the Red Bluff Dam to the Red Bluff Reservoir. The portion of the reservoir that extends into New Mexico is the lowest point in this state. New Mexico and Texas argued over water rights on the river until the United States government in Washington settled the dispute in 1949. Its confluence with the Rio Grande lies in the area of ​​the Amistad Reservoir .

In the second half of the 19th century, the term "West of the Pecos" referred to the rough border areas of the Wild West .

See also

Individual evidence

  1. Pecos River in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
  2. International Boundary and Water Commission: Flow of the Rio Grande and Related Data; From Elephant Butte Dam, New Mexico to the Gulf of Mexico , Water Bulletin No. 75, 2005

Literary note

Karl May told in his books about Winnetou , the chief of the Mescalero - Apaches that this with his tribe on the Rio Pecos in Pueblo have lived.

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