The Pecos River (/ ˈpeɪkəs / PAY-kəs[4]) (Spanish: Río Pecos) originates in north-central New Mexico and flows into Texas, emptying into the Rio Grande. Its headwaters are on the eastern slope of the Sangre de Cristo mountain range in Mora County north of Pecos, New Mexico, at an elevation of over 12,000 feet (3,700 m). [5] .

The Pecos River, one of the major tributaries of the Rio Grande, runs through New Mexico and Texas before it empties into the Rio Grande near Del Rio, Texas. Famous for its frontier folklore, the river flows out of the Pecos Wilderness through rugged granite canyons and waterfalls and passes small, high-mountain meadows along its 926-mile journey.

This river has it all - Challenging whitewater, wilderness experience, pictographs, petroglyphs, beautiful canyons and camps. The standard Lower Pecos

Pecos River, river in the southwestern United States, rising in Mora County, north-central New Mexico, in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, and flowing about 926 miles (1,490 km) through eastern New Mexico and western Texas.

2021年9月12日 · Starting from elevation of over 3,700 m, the river flows southeast through eastern New Mexico and western Texas before emptying into the Rio Grande River at the Amistad reservoir in Val Verde County, 38 miles northwest of Del Rio in southwestern Texas. The river drains about 99,200 km2, with a drainage basin approximating 115,000 km2.

2016年4月16日 · The Pecos River, one of the major tributaries of the Rio Grande, rises on the western slope of the Santa Fe mountain range in Mora County, New Mexico (at 35°59' N, 105°33' W), and runs south through San Miguel, Guadalupe, De Baca, Chaves, and Eddy counties in New Mexico before it enters Texas just east of the 104th meridian.

2020年4月10日 · From below Sheffield in eastern Pecos County to the river's confluence with the Rio Grande, it passes through a deep gorge, which has long constituted a barrier to transportation and which has prevented irrigation from this part of the lower Pecos.

From its origins to roughly 20 miles downstream, the Pecos River is a designated Wild and Scenic River managed by the United States Forest Service. Once over the state border into Texas, the river overlies the Pecos Valley Aquifer, an unconfined aquifer mostly made of alluvial deposits.

The Pecos River rises on the eastern slope of the Santa Fe Mountain Range in Mora County New Mexico. It enters the State of Texas at the state line in Loving County at Red Bluff Lake; meanders in a general southeasterly course approximately 170 miles through a narrow alluvial valley to Sheffield.

The Pecos River, one of the major tributaries of the Rio Grande, rises on the western slope of the Santa Fe mountain range in Mora County, New Mexico (at 35°59' N, 105°33' W), and runs south through San Miguel, Guadalupe, De Baca, Chaves, and Eddy counties in New Mexico before it enters Texas just east of the 104th meridian.