The Rio Grande
At a pull-out on US Hwy 64 just south of the Embudo Station, one has an opportunity to capture this wonderful view of the river as it exits the Rio Grande Canyon. Continuing north on this road leads to Taos where a right turn east off the Plaza onto Kit Carson Road goes to Angel Fire.
Embudo was founded in 1881 when the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad opened a station (depot) there on its Chili Line. The station was named after the village San Antonio de Embudo, located 2 miles up the Embudo River, and until 1902 both communities shared a post office and were known jointly as Embudo.
The Embudo River also known as Rio Embudo is a river formed by the confluence of the Rio Pueblo and Santa Barbara Creek near Peñasco in Rio Arriba County, New Mexico. The Embudo (named after the Spanish word meaning “funnel”) empties into the Rio Grande in the community of Embudo between two distinctively shaped buttes, thus creating a funnel effect after which it is named. Before emptying into the Rio Grande the river flows through Dixon.
The Rio Grande: "too thick to drink, too thin to plow" say some.
The Rio Grande
At a pull-out on US Hwy 64 just south of the Embudo Station, one has an opportunity to capture this wonderful view of the river as it exits the Rio Grande Canyon. Continuing north on this road leads to Taos where a right turn east off the Plaza onto Kit Carson Road goes to Angel Fire.
Embudo was founded in 1881 when the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad opened a station (depot) there on its Chili Line. The station was named after the village San Antonio de Embudo, located 2 miles up the Embudo River, and until 1902 both communities shared a post office and were known jointly as Embudo.
The Embudo River also known as Rio Embudo is a river formed by the confluence of the Rio Pueblo and Santa Barbara Creek near Peñasco in Rio Arriba County, New Mexico. The Embudo (named after the Spanish word meaning “funnel”) empties into the Rio Grande in the community of Embudo between two distinctively shaped buttes, thus creating a funnel effect after which it is named. Before emptying into the Rio Grande the river flows through Dixon.
The Rio Grande: "too thick to drink, too thin to plow" say some.