Acequias · New Mexico · Fieldguide
676 ditches the state has mapped in this region, 98 of them named · Taos County.
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Water here today (9 gages)
Active USGS streamgages within this region's bounding box — near these acequias, though not necessarily on them.
Live from the USGS National Water Information System. Cubic feet per second — one cfs is about 449 gallons a minute. A tile that says no reading means the gage did not report, which is not the same as a dry ditch.
Drought in this county
Share of Taos County, New Mexico in severe drought or worse (D2–D4), weekly, 2000–2026. Source: U.S. Drought Monitor (National Drought Mitigation Center, USDA, NOAA). Categories are published cumulatively.
Adjudications reaching this region
The court process that decides, for every user on a stream system, how much water they have a right to and how old that right is. Status is the state's own, from its adjudication layer.
CompletedRed RiverNamed acequias here (98)
The ditches the state's acequia layer names. Deduplicated — one acequia is often several conveyance segments in the source.
ACEQUIA DEL MALINO · ACEQUIA DEL MOLINO · ALMAGRE CANYON · ALVINO BARELA · ANDERSON · ASSOCIATION · Acequia Madre · Association Ditch · BEAR CANYON · BITTER CREEK · BLIND GULCH · BOBCAT CREEK · BONITO CANYON · BOOKER · CABRESTO CREEK · CABRESTO DITCH NO 1 · CABRESTO DITCH NO 2 · CABRESTO DITCH NO 3 · CABRESTO DITCH NO 4 · CABRESTO DITCH NO 5 · CABRESTO DITCHES · CABRESTO DITCHES 1,2,3 & 4 COMBINED · CAPULIN CANYON · Cerritos Number 2 · Cerro Canal · Cerro Community Ditch · Cerro Community Ditch - LATERAL NO 1 · Cerro Community Ditch - LATERAL NO 1 & 2 · Cerro Community Ditch - LATERAL NO 2 · Cerro Community Ditch - LATERAL NO 3 · Cerro Community Ditch - LATERAL NO 4 · Community Ditch · Cordillera Ditch · DRY ARROYO · EAGLE ROCK LAKE · EL Rito De La Lama · Embergo Ditch · FAWN LAKES · GARCIA DITCH NO 1 · GARCIA DITCH NO 2 · GOATHILL GULCH · GWINN · JAROSO CREEK · LA LOMA CANYAON · LARGO CANYON · LATERAL FROM CABRESTO DITCH NO 4 · LATERAL FROM LLANO · LATIR COMMUNITY · LEWIS · LIANO IRRIGATION COMPANY · LLANO · LONSDALE DITCH NO 1 · LONSDALE DITCH NO 2 · Llano Ditch · MALLETTE CREEK · MASCARENAS · MIDDLE · MIDDLE DITCH LATERAL · MOLY CROP TAILING PIPE LINE · MUCHMORE · MUTZ BRO DITCH NO 1 · MUTZ BRO DITCH NO 2 · Main Lateral · Mesa Ditch · NORTH DITCH A/K/A RIO COLORADO · New Mexico Branch Cerro Canal · Number Four Ditch · Number One Ditch · Number Three Ditch · Number Two Ditch · PIONEER CREEK · QUINTANA DITCH NO 1 · QUINTANA DITCH NO 1 & 1-A · QUINTANA DITCH NO 1A · QUINTANA DITCH NO 2 · QUINTANA DITCH NO 3 · QUINTANA DITCH NO 4 · QUINTANA DITCH NO 5 · QUINTANA DITCH NO 6 · QUINTANA DITCH NO 7 · RYAN DITCH 'A' · RYAN DITCH 'B' · RYAN DITCH 'C' · RYAN DITCH 'D' · RYAN DITCH 'E' · RYAN DITCH 'F' · RYAN DITCH 'I' · Red River · Rito De La Lama · Rito Primero · Rito del Medio · SOUTH SIDE · SPRING CANYON · SPRING GULCH DITCH 1" PLASTIC PIPE · SULPHUR GULCH · Sunshine Canal · UNDER GROUND PIPE · WEST LATIR CREEK
An acequia is a community-governed irrigation ditch. In New Mexico it is also a political subdivision of the state, with elected commissioners and a mayordomo, and many of them are older than the state, the territory, and the counties drawn around them. Their business happens at the ditch, at the county, and at the Office of the State Engineer — almost never at a city council, which is why the rest of this site cannot carry it.
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Ditches, diversions, region boundaries and adjudications: New Mexico Office of the State Engineer, OSE GIS — OSE Conveyances, retrieved 2026-08-31. Geometry simplified for display; nothing moved, nothing invented. Not a survey product.