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EMBUDO, N.M., -- Accurate, reliable and timely water data is as important today as it was 125 years ago when the first U.S. Geological Survey streamgage in the United States was established here in 1889.
As part of 2014’s Earth Day events, the USGS held a celebration for the 125th anniversary of the Embudo streamgage. Suzette Kimball, Acting Director of the USGS, spoke about the importance of accurate, reliable and timely water data and how the Embudo streamgage has played a role in providing this data for so many years.
The establishment of the gage at Embudo marked the beginning of systematic streamgaging in the United States. The information from river and stream gages is a matter of public safety, environmental protection and wise economic development. The data is used to forecast floods, manage and allocate water resources and design engineering structures such as dams, irrigation structures and bridges.
Photo by Elizabeth Lockyear, April 22, 2014.
Arbustos perennifolios o semiperennifolios, de 1-1,3 m de alto. Hojas opuestas, las inferiores moderadamente anchas, hasta 9 ch de largo x 4,5 com de ancho, profundamente acanaladas en el haz, auriculadas en la base, serradas, penninerviadas y reticuladas con los nervios transversales, volviéndose más pequeñas hacia arriba. Panículas florales piramidales; raquis tetrangulado, alado, de hasta 60 cm de largo; ramificaciones corimboso-racemosas; pedicelos curvados hacia adentro. Flores péndulas; cáliz con el tubo corto, en forma de copa, con 5 segmentos ovado acuminados y extendidos. Corola tubular, en forma de embudo, tubo muy largo, curvado, con la base dilatada e inflada; limbo muy oblicuo, con 5 segmentos ovados y extendidos, de color rosa anaranjado en el exterior de los pétalos, con el centro amarillo. Hay cinco hojas verdes por cada flor. Estambres 4, exertos, d´didimos; filamentos insertos un poco en la corola; anteras ovales, erguidas, libres. Ovario oavdo. Estilo más largo que la corola y los estambres. Estigma obtuso. Especie nativa de Sudáfrica. En iturraran se encuentra en la zona 1.
Shrubs, evergreen or semi-evergreen, growing to 1-1,3 m tall. Leaves opposite, the lower ones moderately large, up to 9 cm x 4,5 cm wide, deeply channelled above, auricled at the base, serrated, penniveined and reticulate with transverse veins, gradually become smaller upwards. Panicles pyramidal; rachis four-angled, winged, to 60 cm long; branches corymboso-racemose; pedicels curved downwards. Flowers drooping; calyx with the tube short, cup-shaped, with five speading, ovate-acuminate segments. Corolla tubular, funnel-shaped; the tube very long, curved, the base dilated and inflated; limb very oblique, of five, spreading, ovate segments, orange-pink colour along the outline of the petals, with a yellow center. There are five green leaves on every flower. Stamens four, exserted, didynamous; filaments inserted a little bellow the mouth of the corolla; anther ovals, erect, free. Ovary ovate. Style longer than corolla and stamens. Stigma obtuse. Species native to Suth Africa. In Iturraran is found in zone 1.
Site of the US Geological Survey's hydrography training center.
Grade of the Chili Line is discernible in the hills beyond the river. The line was abandoned after the last train ran the route between Antonito, Colorado and Santa Fe in September 1941.
I'm conserving bandwidth for other projects and chopped off the last 20 seconds which weren't terribly colorful.
El Dique San Roque, esta vez lleno por lo que llovió todo el verano. Hace años que el agua no llegaba a la vertiente.
Navegando en el Paraná. El horizonte está inclinado, podría haberlo corregido pero me gustó así, acompañando al movimiento del velero...
Para el grupo de los viernes....Fence Friday. ^_^
Sailing in Parana river. The horizon is not right, I could have corrected it but it pleased me thus, following the sailboat movement...
for ~~fence friday~~ group. ^_^
**Embudo Historic District** - National Register of Historic Places Ref # 79001547, date listed 3/12/1979
U.S. 64
Embudo, NM (Rio Arriba County)
Located approximately mid-way between the northern New Mexico towns of Espanola and Taos, the Embudo Historic District lies in the narrow canon of the Rio Grande on the river's west bank. "Embudo" (funnel), the name given by Spanish settlers in the 17th century, well describes this part of the canon where its rocky hillsides, covered with cactus and juniper trees, rise steeply from the banks of the swiftly flowing river.
Situated on a small plain where the valley suddenly widens, the historic district embraces a complex of structures erected circa 1880 by the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad, familiarly known in Mew Mexico as the "Chili Line." Also within the district, at its south end where the canon again narrows sharply, is the U.S. Geological Survey Embudd Stream Gaging Station. Established in 1888 by order of Major John Wesley Powell, famous western explorer and pioneer hydrographer, the gaging station is the first unit of its kind to be built anywhere.
Within the boundaries of northern New Mexico's Embudo Historic District two elements are combined to make the area worthy of historic recognition. These include the cluster of original structures erected circa 1880 to service an important stop on the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad and the site of the first stream gaging station established by the U.S. Geological Survey in 1888, a significant advance in the science of hydrology.
Seventeenth century Spanish documents indicate that the first settlements in the region to bear the name "Embudo" was at the present village of Dixon, two and one-half miles north where Embudo Creek flows into the Rio Grande. Because of its location on a main route between Taos and Santa Fe, Embudo was often mentioned in the accounts of New Mexico travelers, from 18th century Hispanic churchmen to 19th century U.S. military observers and contemporary railroad enthusiasts who were fascinated by the line's narrow gauge construction and the atmosphere of northern New Mexico. (1)
References (1) NRHP Nomination Form s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg...
Arbustos perennifolios o semiperennifolios, de 1-1,3 m de alto. Hojas opuestas, las inferiores moderadamente anchas, hasta 9 ch de largo x 4,5 com de ancho, profundamente acanaladas en el haz, auriculadas en la base, serradas, penninerviadas y reticuladas con los nervios transversales, volviéndose más pequeñas hacia arriba. Panículas florales piramidales; raquis tetrangulado, alado, de hasta 60 cm de largo; ramificaciones corimboso-racemosas; pedicelos curvados hacia adentro. Flores péndulas; cáliz con el tubo corto, en forma de copa, con 5 segmentos ovado acuminados y extendidos. Corola tubular, en forma de embudo, tubo muy largo, curvado, con la base dilatada e inflada; limbo muy oblicuo, con 5 segmentos ovados y extendidos, de color rosa anaranjado en el exterior de los pétalos, con el centro amarillo. Hay cinco hojas verdes por cada flor. Estambres 4, exertos, d´didimos; filamentos insertos un poco en la corola; anteras ovales, erguidas, libres. Ovario oavdo. Estilo más largo que la corola y los estambres. Estigma obtuso. Especie nativa de Sudáfrica. En iturraran se encuentra en la zona 1.
Shrubs, evergreen or semi-evergreen, growing to 1-1,3 m tall. Leaves opposite, the lower ones moderately large, up to 9 cm x 4,5 cm wide, deeply channelled above, auricled at the base, serrated, penniveined and reticulate with transverse veins, gradually become smaller upwards. Panicles pyramidal; rachis four-angled, winged, to 60 cm long; branches corymboso-racemose; pedicels curved downwards. Flowers drooping; calyx with the tube short, cup-shaped, with five speading, ovate-acuminate segments. Corolla tubular, funnel-shaped; the tube very long, curved, the base dilated and inflated; limb very oblique, of five, spreading, ovate segments, orange-pink colour along the outline of the petals, with a yellow center. There are five green leaves on every flower. Stamens four, exserted, didynamous; filaments inserted a little bellow the mouth of the corolla; anther ovals, erect, free. Ovary ovate. Style longer than corolla and stamens. Stigma obtuse. Species native to Suth Africa. In Iturraran is found in zone 1.