Mancos River

Tributary of the San Juan River in New Mexico

37°21′30″N 108°15′12″W / 37.35833°N 108.25333°W / 37.35833; -108.25333 Mouth

• location

Confluence with San Juan

• coordinates

36°59′00″N 108°58′50″W / 36.98333°N 108.98056°W / 36.98333; -108.98056

• elevation

4,639 ft (1,414 m)Basin featuresProgressionSan Juan—Colorado

The Mancos River, formerly also El Rio de San Lazaro, is an 85.4-mile-long (137.4 km)^[2] northeast tributary of the San Juan River. It flows from the confluence of West Mancos River and East Mancos River near Mancos, Colorado and joins the San Juan near Four Corners Monument in New Mexico.^[1]

The river was named after an incident during which a horse rider hurt his hand while crossing, the word Mancos being derived from Spanish meaning "one-armed".^[3]

References

^ ^a ^b "Mancos River". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 2011-01-29.
^ U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map Archived 2012-03-29 at the Wayback Machine, accessed March 21, 2011
^ Dawson, John Frank. Place names in Colorado: why 700 communities were so named, 150 of Spanish or Indian origin. Denver, CO: The J. Frank Dawson Publishing Co. p. 33.