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Image of the Day — Rio Chama
Posted: Saturday, July 20, 2024
Rio Chama just below the hot springs
Image taken:
07/30/2020
by: Adam Read
©
2020
Longitude: -106.722803
Latitude: 36.540647
(WGS 84 or NAD 83)
About this image
The Rio Chama is a major tributary of the Rio Grande. Because of the San Juan-Chama Project, a trans-basin diversion, the Rio Chama often supplies more water to irrigators in the Rio Grande valley than the Rio Grande does late in the season. The Rio Chama below El Vado Dam has a "wild and scenic river" designation. It cuts an impressive gorge through Mesozoic rocks.
For more details, see our guidebook: "The Rio Chama A River Guide to the Geology and Landscapes" by Paul W. Bauer, Matthew Zimmerer, J. Michael Timmons, Brigitte Felix, and Steve Harris, 2021.
Image posted: 06-20-2021