Purgatoire River at Madrid flow today
Streamflow at USGS station 07124200, in the Arkansas basin (Division 2).
About this gauge
Purgatoire River at Madrid is one of the 83 stream gauges BasinMind reads for the Arkansas basin, Division 2 of Colorado's seven water divisions. It is USGS station 07124200 (37.1295, -104.6400), and the official record is on that station's page.
At Oct 4, 2026, 11:45 a.m. MT it read 38 cfs, about 75 acre-feet a day. USGS publishes no daily median for this gauge, so no percentage is shown.
On the Purgatoire River, the nearest gauge BasinMind reads is Purgatoire River below Trinidad Lake downstream.
Across Division 2, DWR lists 18 active calls; the most senior is Hardscrabble Ditch on Hardscrabble Creek, priority May 1, 1860 (the full list). A call governs the stretch of river it is placed on, so look for this river in the list.
One cfs is a cubic foot of water passing each second, about 448.8 gallons per minute; percent of median compares today's flow with the median for this date (cfs and acre-feet). How calls work: What is a water call?.
Main-stem gauges in the Arkansas basin
- Arkansas River at Parkdale
- Arkansas River near Leadville · 12 cfs
- East Fork Arkansas River at US Highway 24 near Leadville · 14 cfs
- Arkansas River near Nathrop
- Arkansas River at Portland
- Arkansas River at Moffat Street at Pueblo · 243 cfs
- Arkansas River near Avondale · 610 cfs
- Arkansas River at La Junta
More gauges on the Purgatoire River
- Purgatoire River below Trinidad Lake · 0.1 cfs
- Purgatoire River near Thatcher · 31 cfs
- Purgatoire River at Rock Crossing near Timpas · 84 cfs
- Purgatoire River near Las Animas · 237 cfs