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Embudo Creek

Embudo Creek

River in New Mexico, United States

The Embudo Creek also known as Rio Embudo is a river formed by the confluence of the Rio Pueblo and Santa Barbara Creek near Peñasco in Rio Arriba County, New Mexico. The Embudo (named after the Spanish word meaning “funnel”) empties into the Rio Grande in the community of Embudo between two distinctively shaped buttes, thus creating a funnel effect after which it is named.[1] Before emptying into the Rio Grande the river flows through Dixon.[2]

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  • The Rio Embudo passing through the box canyon that bears its name.
  • View of the mesa in 1885
  • similar view ca. 2008

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References

  1. [1]
    Pearce, T.M., ed. ‘’New Mexico Place Names: A Geographical Dictionary’’, University of New Mexico Press,Albuquerque NM 1965
  2. [2]
    U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Embudo Creek



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