About this river
Rio Lucero is a 2.1 mile stream near Far Flung Adventures in New Mexico. Streamflow is measured at the USGS gauge Rio Pueblo DE Taos near Taos, NM (site 08269000). The National Hydrography Dataset places it at stream order 4. Reach geometry comes from the USGS National Hydrography Dataset.
Typical flow by month
1913 to 2025
Rio Lucero typically runs highest in May, at a median 80 cfs, and lowest in January, at 6.5 cfs. The highest flow on record for any single day is 926 cfs, in 1979.
| Month | Typical (cfs) | Usual range (cfs) | Relative level |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 6.5 | 5.4 to 8.0 | |
| February | 6.8 | 5.6 to 8.7 | |
| March | 11 | 7.8 to 16 | |
| April | 39 | 24 to 60 | |
| May | 80 | 42 to 145 | |
| June | 38 | 22 to 82 | |
| July | 16 | 9.9 to 25 | |
| August | 13 | 8.6 to 18 | |
| September | 8.9 | 6.6 to 13 | |
| October | 8.6 | 6.7 to 11 | |
| November | 8.0 | 6.6 to 9.9 | |
| December | 7.3 | 5.7 to 9.1 |
Typical is the median of each month’s daily median values, and the usual range runs from the median 25th to the median 75th percentile, across about 76 years of record. Statistics published by the US Geological Survey for Rio Pueblo DE Taos near Taos, NM (site 08269000). Conditions on any given day can fall well outside the usual range. Check the current reading before you go.
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