Geography Tool Shed : New Mexico Rivers

United States Rivers

New Mexico

River count	315
River miles	10,688

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Name	Length (miles)	Watershed Length (miles)
Agua Chiquita Creek	37.2	37
Aguilar Creek	15.5	16
Alamocita Creek	27.2	27
Alamo Creek	6.7	21
Alamosa Creek	14.1	14
Alamosa Creek (Rio Grande tributary)	62.3	62
Alamosa Creek (Taiban Creek tributary)	58.2	58
Alamos Creek	31.2	31
Alona Creek	9.2	27
Amargo Creek	35.1	53
Animas River	36	36
Apache Creek (East Rita Blanca Creek tributary)	38	38
Apache Creek (Gila River tributary)	11	11
Archuleta Creek	14.7	15
Arroyo Chico	33.6	63
Arroyo del Macho	96.2	136
Atarque Creek	46.9	47
Baca Spring Creek	22.6	23
Banderitas Creek	16.6	17
Barranca Creek	37.9	38
Bear Creek	33.7	34
Beaver Creek	14.6	15
Berrenda Creek	35.8	36
Berrendo Creek	17.4	17
Bitter Creek (Gila River tributary)	6.3	6
Black Canyon Creek	25.6	26
Black Creek	2.9	3
Blanca Creek	20.1	20
Blue Creek	37.3	37
Bluewater Creek	55.4	55
Bob Wells Creek	19.2	19
Buckhorn Creek	23.9	24
Bueyeros Creek	17.5	18
Bull Canyon Creek	22.2	22
Bull Creek	17.1	17
Bushnell Creek	15.3	15
Cabresto Creek	18	18
Cabresto Creek	25	25
Cameron Creek	24	24
Campbell Blue Creek	0.3	0
Cañada Ancha	14.8	15
Cañada Bonita	24.9	25
Cañada de la Entranas	19.5	20
Cañada de Ojo Sarco	14.6	15
Cañada los Apaches	29.9	30
Canadian River (Arkansas River tributary)	341.9	2,695
Canyon Creek	14.4	14
Carrizo Creek (Arroyo del Macho tributary)	19.4	19
Carrizo Creek (Canadian River (Arkansas River tributary))	19.3	19
Carrizo Creek (Rita Blanca Creek tributary)	82	124
Carrizozo Creek	46.4	46
Carros Creek	20.8	21
Cebolla Creek	20.7	21
Cedar Creek	23.9	24
Centerfire Creek	17.1	17
Cerrososo Creek	37	37
Chaco River	106	171
Charco Creek	37.5	38
Cherisco Creek	17.3	17
Cherry Creek	19.6	20
Chical Creek	17.4	17
Chico Creek	35.4	35
Chicorica Creek	28.1	78
Chloride Creek	16.4	16
Cibolo Creek	16.2	16
Cienega Creek	14.4	14
Cieneguilla Creek	19.4	19
Cimarron River	69.2	322
Coal Creek	15.3	15
Coal Creek	3.1	3
Conchas River	84	119
Corazon Creek	21.1	21
Corrumpa Creek	74.9	137
Corrumpa Creek - North Branch	15	15
Costilla Creek	40.9	41
Cottonwood Creek	17.5	54
Cow Creek	30.1	47
Coyote Creek (Little Colorado River tributary)	3.8	4
Coyote Creek (Mora River tributary)	46.2	63
Coyote Creek (Navajo River tributary)	0.6	1
Coyote Creek (Rio Puerco (Rio Chama tributary))	15	15
Cramer Creek	6	6
Crooked Creek	41.9	42
Crow Creek	32.9	33
Cuchillo Negro Creek	40.5	93
Cuervo Creek	46.6	64
Curtis Creek	19.4	19
Deep Creek	18.5	19
Delaware River	8.3	8
Diamond Creek	27.2	45
Dry Cimarron River	110.8	169
Duck Creek	23.1	65
Eagle Creek	20.3	39
Eagle Creek	70	70
El Rito	36	36
Embudo Creek	12.8	86
Encinal Creek	16.2	16
Entrania Creek	17.3	17
Escondido Creek	10.8	63
Esteros Creek	26.1	26
Farmington Glade	26	26
Frances Creek	20.5	21
Galisteo Creek	55.3	55
Gallegos Creek	18.3	18
Gallegos Creek	20.1	20
Gallinas Creek	30	45
Gallinas River	63.6	124
Garcia Creek	27.3	27
Gila River	106.5	969
Gila River - East Fork	27.6	116
Gila River - Middle Fork	37	66
Gila River - West Fork	37.2	122
Harden Cienega Creek	5.6	6
Indian Creek (Chaco River tributary)	49.5	50
Indian Creek (Gila River - Middle Fork tributary)	14.5	15
Indian Creek (Rocky Arroyo tributary)	17.6	18
Jaralosa Creek	22	22
Jemez River	49.1	199
Jemez River - East Fork	22.2	22
La Cinta Creek	71.4	116
Lagartija Creek	15	15
La Jara Creek	50.4	50
La Jara Creek	16.5	17
La Jencia Creek	24.8	25
La Manga Creek	27.5	28
La Plata River	26.1	26
Largo Creek	67.4	152
Las Animas Creek	40.6	41
Latir Creek	15.3	15
LeFebres Creek	13.8	14
Leon Creek	17.8	18
Little Creek (Eagle Creek tributary)	18.7	19
Little Creek (Gila River - West Fork tributary)	18.5	19
Long Creek (Purgatoire River tributary)	9.4	9
Los Pinos River	13.6	14
Mancos River	4.1	4
Mangas Creek	28.5	29
Mangas Creek	25.2	25
Manuelitas Creek	19.3	19
Mesita Creek	13.6	14
Middle Ponil Creek	23.9	24
Mimbres River	99.7	254
Mimbres River - East Fork	15	15
Mineral Creek	17.3	17
Minneosa Creek	28.2	28
Mogollon Creek	29.8	30
Monia Creek	26.2	63
Mora River	127.7	302
Moras Creek	17.9	18
Mule Creek	14.1	14
Mule Creek	18.7	51
Navajo River	18	72
Negrito Creek	13	43
Negrito Creek - North Fork	13.2	13
Negrito Creek - South Fork	16.8	17
North Cottonwood Creek	26.2	26
North Percha Creek	17.8	18
North Ponil Creek	26.6	27
North Seco Creek	15.6	16
North Seven Rivers	21	21
Oak Grove Creek	14.6	15
Ocate Creek	54.6	110
Pajarito Creek	75.5	118
Palomas Creek	24	90
Palomas Creek - North Fork	22.9	23
Palomas Creek - South Fork	23.5	24
Patos Creek	20.4	20
Pecos River	527.5	2,155
Pedroso Creek	22.4	22
Percha Creek	25.7	44
Perico Creek	47.7	48
Pinabetes Creek	45.6	63
Pine Cienega Creek	17.9	32
Plaza Larga Creek	31.3	134
Pojoaque Creek	6.6	36
Pojoaque River	5.1	56
Ponil Creek	18.7	122
Poverty Creek	21.1	36
Pueblo Creek	24.2	24
Puerco River	78.4	116
Puerco River - South Fork	35.1	35
Punta de Agua Creek	1	450
Rafael Creek	27.8	28
Raton Creek	18.7	19
Rayado Creek	44.7	90
Red River	27.2	45
Revuelto Creek	42.8	177
Rinconada Creek	16.9	17
Rio Bonito	39.8	58
Rio Brazos	26.7	27
Rio Cebolla	23.4	23
Rio Cebolla	23.5	24
Rio Chama	120.2	524
Rio Chamita	13.9	14
Rio Chiquito	19.1	19
Rio Chupadero	14.8	15
Rio de Arenas	16.8	17
Rio de las Trampas	18.8	19
Rio de las Vacas	26.9	27
Rio del Oso	15.9	16
Rio de los Pinos	21.3	21
Rio del Plano	32.1	32
Rio de Truchas	23	23
Rio Felix	94.6	164
Rio Fernando de Taos	23.5	24
Rio Gallina	37.8	38
Rio Grande	475.2	5,238
Rio Grande del Rancho	28	62
Rio Guadalupe	13.7	64
Rio Hondo	19.2	19
Rio Hondo	86.4	260
Rio Lucero	17.2	17
Rio Medio	19.9	20
Rio Moquino	4.2	40
Rio Mora	20.4	20
Rio Nambe	14.1	14
Rio Nutria	37.8	38
Rio Nutrias	41.1	41
Rio Ojo Caliente	24.6	106
Rio Paguate	24.6	64
Rio Peñasco	116.5	209
Rio Pescado	43.9	65
Rio Pueblo	25.6	26
Rio Pueblo de Taos	32.2	135
Rio Puerco (Rio Chama tributary)	25.5	41
Rio Puerco (Rio Grande tributary)	224.7	518
Rio Quemado	15.5	16
Rio Ruidoso	36.1	75
Rio Salado (Jemez River tributary)	31.2	31
Rio Salado (Rio Grande tributary)	83.2	202
Rio San Antonio	32.8	54
Rio San Jose	83.6	181
Rio Santa Barbara	13.7	14
Rio Tesuque	15.5	16
Rio Tusas	46.3	46
Rio Vallecitos	35	35
Rito Creek	21.9	85
Rito de la Olla	14.5	15
Rito de los Frijoles	14.4	14
Rito de Tierra Amarilla	24.9	25
Rito Seco	5.1	5
Rocky Arroyo	33.3	51
Sacaton Creek	18.1	18
Salado Creek (Cimarron River tributary)	20.9	21
Salado Creek (Palomas Creek tributary)	19.6	20
Salado Creek (Pecos River tributary)	32.8	33
Salado Creek (Rio Bonito tributary)	18.6	19
Salado Creek (Rio Puerco (Rio Grande tributary))	19.5	20
Salitre Creek	13.8	14
Salt Creek	55.6	228
Saltpeter Creek	17.7	18
San Antonio Creek	32.1	32
Sand Creek	17.6	18
San Francisco River	103.9	362
San Ignacio Creek	23.6	24
San Isidro Creek	8.1	13
San Jon Creek	27	27
San Juan River	134.3	579
San Miguel Creek	29.7	30
San Simon River	16.7	17
Santa Clara Creek	25.1	25
Santa Cruz River	12.2	48
Santa Fe River	50.3	71
San Vicente Arroyo	37.3	139
Sapello River	46.8	66
Sapillo Creek	20.5	21
Sauz Creek	21.4	21
Sawmill Creek	14	14
Seboyeta Creek	18.7	19
Seboyetita Creek	16.8	17
Seco Creek (La Cinta Creek tributary)	13	31
Seco Creek (Rio Grande tributary)	25.3	41
Seneca Creek	66.1	97
Sloan Creek	16.6	17
South Carrizo Creek	2.3	2
South Cottonwood Creek	10.6	11
South Diamond Creek	18.1	18
South Ponil Creek	15.7	40
Spring Creek (Corrumpa Creek tributary)	18.8	19
Spring Creek (Pecos River tributary)	14.6	15
Squaw Creek	27.3	27
Sweetwater Creek	25.2	25
Taiban Creek	20.9	97
Taylor Creek	17.3	17
Tecolote Creek	56.5	77
Tesesquite Creek	0.7	1
Tierra Blanca Creek	36.2	36
Tierra Blanca Creek (Red River of the South - Prairie Dog Town Fork tributary)	14.4	14
Tinaja Creek	26.5	27
Tramperos Creek	77.8	170
Travesser Creek	41.5	42
Trementina Creek	1.1	1
Tres Hermanos Creek	20.9	21
Trinchera Creek (Purgatoire River tributary)	7.5	8
Trout Creek	16.1	16
Truchas Creek	28.9	29
Trujillo Creek	13.4	40
Tularosa River	42.5	86
Turkey Creek (Gila River tributary)	17.6	18
Turkey Creek (Poverty Creek tributary)	14.5	15
Una de Gato Creek	31.1	31
Urraca Creek	18.4	18
Van Bremmer Creek	43.6	44
Ventero Creek	1.3	1
Vermejo River	70.2	132
Walnut Creek	30.2	30
Webb Creek	18.3	18
Whitewater Creek (San Francisco River tributary)	19.8	20
Whitewater Creek (San Vicente Arroyo tributary)	26.7	27
Willow Creek (Canadian River (Arkansas River tributary))	15.9	16
Willow Creek (Rio Chama tributary)	37.1	37
Wolf Creek	23.4	23
Yeso Creek	47.7	48
Zeufeldt Arroyo	21.8	37
Zuñi River	34.5	137

Note: Lengths are for the part of the river/watershed within the boundary of this state.

Note: Mostly rivers/streams 15+ miles in length.

Data from United States Geological Survey