The monitoring network within this area

Hydrionis holds 1,138 values from 3 gauges within it. Discharge is a property of a gauge and its reach, not of this drainage area, so this page reports the network and its records rather than a single figure.

3

Gauges

1,138

Values held

1910–2026

Record spans

Gauges within the Saguache huc8 subbasin

3 monitoring points, positioned as the publisher records them.

Flood peaks, as measured

This gauge's flood record, as measured. Unlike a daily mean it is the discharge at the moment the river was highest, which is the figure flood frequency analysis is built on.

Largest measured flow of each year at SAGUACHE CREEK NEAR SAGUACHE, CO

The highest instantaneous discharge the publisher recorded in each year — a flood peak as measured, not a daily average of one. 1911–2007.

Show relevant events (1 event)Shading marks when something was recorded, not what caused the line.

Published by the gauge's own operator from its sub-daily record; Hydrionis stores the figure rather than recomputing it. A year the gauge did not cover produces no value rather than a low one, and the gaps are stated below the chart. A peak is a property of this gauge and its reach: a larger flood upstream or downstream of it is not in this series.

What the shaded periods are (1 event)

A shaded period marks when something was recorded, not what caused the shape of the line. Where the two coincide, they coincided.

Documented record — A documented event, compiled from cited sources after it happened. The dates are as good as the record, which for older events can mean the month rather than the day.

Event	Type	Period	Standing	Authority
Hurricane Katrina water and sanitation collapse	Flood	2005-08-29 – 2005-09-30	Documented record	Compiled record

Not shown on this chart

The 1976 drought — This event’s area does not contain this chart’s subject. Sharing a country is not sharing an event, so it is not drawn.
The 2022 drought — This event’s area does not contain this chart’s subject. Sharing a country is not sharing an event, so it is not drawn.
Yorkshire drought — This event’s area does not contain this chart’s subject. Sharing a country is not sharing an event, so it is not drawn.
Cantareira water crisis, São Paulo — This event’s area does not contain this chart’s subject. Sharing a country is not sharing an event, so it is not drawn.
Cape Town Day Zero — This event’s area does not contain this chart’s subject. Sharing a country is not sharing an event, so it is not drawn.
European drought — This event’s area does not contain this chart’s subject. Sharing a country is not sharing an event, so it is not drawn.

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Underlying data
Period	SAGUACHE CREEK NEAR SAGUACHE, CO (m³/s)
1911	10.2
1912	12.7
1914	15.7
1915	13.1
1916	8.75
1917	15.0
1918	7.08
1919	16.0
1920	17.1
1921	21.1
1922	9.77
1923	13.6
1924	19.3
1925	7.33
1926	13.3
1927	9.74
1928	21.4
1929	16.7
1930	7.11
1931	6.23
1932	17.8
1933	12.2
1934	3.45
1935	12.8
1936	3.94
1937	11.0
1938	13.3
1939	7.56
1940	3.88
1941	17.0
1942	21.2
1943	4.67
1944	17.4
1945	5.15
1946	4.30
1947	8.30
1948	20.9
1949	19.7
1950	3.20
1951	6.51
1952	16.0
1953	12.8
1954	4.08
1955	3.28
1956	4.36
1957	20.7
1958	19.0
1959	3.43
1960	7.48
1961	4.39
1962	8.13
1963	5.61
1964	22.4
1965	16.8
1966	4.70
1967	3.62
1968	13.1
1969	8.95
1970	12.1
1971	6.31
1972	4.64
1973	11.4
1974	3.37
1975	9.09
1976	5.80
1977	3.68
1978	4.59
1979	10.8
1980	9.51
1981	2.38
1982	6.31
1991	5.52
1992	4.53
1993	11.2
1994	5.35
1995	14.8
1996	4.50
1997	8.30
1998	7.59
1999	34.5
2000	5.47
2001	10.9
2002	1.90
2003	4.64
2004	4.79
2005	8.18
2006	3.96
2007	7.08

About this series

Everything below is a property of the data rather than a rating of it. There is deliberately no single confidence score: how much a gap matters depends on what you are about to do with the series, and only you know that.

Source	United States Geological Survey — National Water Information System · US Government work — public domain
How the values came to exist	Measured
Period held	1911–2007
Completeness	90.7% of the periods in that span are held. Gaps are drawn as breaks and never interpolated.
Known gaps	2 separate periods inside 1911–2007 hold no value. The longest runs from 1983 to 1990 — 8 years with no reading. They are drawn as breaks in the line and are never interpolated across.
Continuity	The record begins in 1911 and is not continuous from it: 97 years separate the first value from the last, and 91% of the years between them are held. The span is not the record.
Last read from the publisher	2026-10-01
Redistribution	Permitted by the upstream licences
Commercial reuse	Permitted by the upstream licences. No Hydrionis access tier can widen this.
Methodology	How this was produced

How much of the rain came back out

A discharge in cubic metres per second cannot be compared with anything: the larger number may only mean the larger catchment. Divided by the area draining to the gauge it becomes a depth of water over that land, which answers a question a reader already has — of the rain that fell here, how much came back out as river?

Water leaving the catchment above SAGUACHE CREEK NEAR SAGUACHE, CO, as a depth

The year's flow spread over the land draining to this gauge, in millimetres — the same unit rainfall is measured in. 1911–2006.

Show relevant events (1 event)Shading marks when something was recorded, not what caused the line.

Computed by Hydrionis from the published annual mean flow and the catchment area the station's own publisher states. It is not a water balance: the difference between rainfall and runoff is not evaporation alone but also change in groundwater storage, water abstracted and taken elsewhere, and water imported by transfer schemes — which is why a catchment can yield more runoff than the rain that fell on it without anything being measured wrongly. A different area figure rescales every value here by the ratio between them.

What the shaded periods are (1 event)

A shaded period marks when something was recorded, not what caused the shape of the line. Where the two coincide, they coincided.

Documented record — A documented event, compiled from cited sources after it happened. The dates are as good as the record, which for older events can mean the month rather than the day.

Event	Type	Period	Standing	Authority
Hurricane Katrina water and sanitation collapse	Flood	2005-08-29 – 2005-09-30	Documented record	Compiled record

Not shown on this chart

The 1976 drought — This event’s area does not contain this chart’s subject. Sharing a country is not sharing an event, so it is not drawn.
The 2022 drought — This event’s area does not contain this chart’s subject. Sharing a country is not sharing an event, so it is not drawn.
Yorkshire drought — This event’s area does not contain this chart’s subject. Sharing a country is not sharing an event, so it is not drawn.
Cantareira water crisis, São Paulo — This event’s area does not contain this chart’s subject. Sharing a country is not sharing an event, so it is not drawn.
Cape Town Day Zero — This event’s area does not contain this chart’s subject. Sharing a country is not sharing an event, so it is not drawn.
European drought — This event’s area does not contain this chart’s subject. Sharing a country is not sharing an event, so it is not drawn.

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Underlying data
Period	SAGUACHE CREEK NEAR SAGUACHE, CO (mm)
1911	55.0
1915	47.0
1916	50.0
1917	53.0
1918	39.0
1919	62.0
1920	57.0
1921	64.0
1922	43.0
1923	53.0
1924	67.0
1925	41.0
1926	49.0
1927	49.0
1928	58.0
1929	58.0
1930	35.0
1931	24.0
1932	46.0
1933	29.0
1934	18.0
1935	36.0
1936	28.0
1937	34.0
1938	50.0
1939	35.0
1940	17.0
1941	59.0
1942	62.0
1943	28.0
1944	50.0
1945	35.0
1946	27.0
1947	43.0
1948	54.0
1949	59.0
1950	20.0
1951	18.0
1952	43.0
1953	33.0
1954	21.0
1955	19.0
1956	19.0
1957	69.0
1958	51.0
1959	25.0
1960	34.0
1961	25.0
1962	37.0
1963	17.0
1964	25.0
1965	61.0
1966	27.0
1967	22.0
1968	47.0
1969	34.0
1970	56.0
1971	29.0
1972	27.0
1973	44.0
1974	21.0
1975	40.0
1976	31.0
1977	16.0
1978	21.0
1979	45.0
1980	37.0
1981	18.0
1982	42.0
1983	50.0
1984	59.0
1985	56.0
1986	48.0
1987	65.0
1988	28.0
1989	26.0
1990	31.0
1991	30.0
1992	29.0
1993	39.0
1994	26.0
1995	48.0
1996	24.0
1997	39.0
1998	40.0
1999	47.0
2000	27.0
2001	40.0
2002	13.0
2003	19.0
2004	28.0
2005	31.0
2006	26.0

About this series

Everything below is a property of the data rather than a rating of it. There is deliberately no single confidence score: how much a gap matters depends on what you are about to do with the series, and only you know that.

Source	United States Geological Survey — National Water Information System · US Government work — public domain
How the values came to exist	Derived Computed by Hydrionis
Period held	1911–2006
Completeness	96.9% of the periods in that span are held. Gaps are drawn as breaks and never interpolated.
Known gaps	One period inside 1911–2006 holds no value: 1912 to 1914, 3 years with no reading. It is drawn as a break in the line and is never interpolated across.
Continuity	The record begins in 1911 and is not continuous from it: 96 years separate the first value from the last, and 97% of the years between them are held. The span is not the record.
Inputs last read	2026-10-01 · when the records this was computed from were last read from their publishers
Calculation date	2026-08-24 · when the calculation method was last versioned, not a reading of any publisher
Redistribution	Permitted by the upstream licences
Commercial reuse	Permitted by the upstream licences. No Hydrionis access tier can widen this.
Methodology	How this was produced

The snow standing above this water

3 automated snow stations sit inside this drainage area, weighing the snowpack rather than measuring how deep it is.

199

Fullest snowpack recorded at Cochetopa Pass, in 2019 (mm of water)

59

Thinnest, in 2018 (mm of water)

March

Month the pack is usually at its fullest

May

Month the pack has gone by, in half of years

Peak snowpack at Cochetopa Pass

Water years 2005–2026. Each point is the fullest month of that snow season.

A water year runs October to September and is named for the year it ends, so the snow of one winter stays in one point. The value is the fullest month, not the fullest day: a pack that peaked sharply mid-month reads lower here than a single measurement taken at the right moment would.

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Underlying data
Period	Cochetopa Pass (mm)
2005	113
2006	88.0
2007	84.0
2008	148
2009	73.0
2010	100
2011	99.0
2012	69.0
2013	70.0
2014	124
2015	115
2016	122
2017	107
2018	59.0
2019	199
2020	150
2021	137
2022	91.0
2023	125
2024	131
2025	120
2026	82.0

Why the snow is not read against the river here

Peak snow water equivalent and Mean river flow, water year overlap for only 1 year at these subjects. A relationship read off a span that short is reading the weather of a few seasons.

Every gauge Hydrionis holds within this area

Gauges within the Saguache and what each holds
Gauge	Measures	Values	Record
SAGUACHE CREEK NEAR SAGUACHE, CO	burned area within 50 km, catchment area, annual maximum river flow, mean river flow, mean river flow, water year	311	1910–2026
LA GARITA CREEK NEAR LA GARITA, CO	catchment area, annual maximum river flow	71	1920–2026
CARNERO CREEK NEAR LA GARITA, CO.	catchment area, annual maximum river flow	59	1920–2026

How these gauges were attached to this water

Assigned by the publisher to a numbered basin Every gauge here is assigned to this drainage area by its own publisher, which issues the area an official code — 13010004. A drainage area is not a river: it contains the tributaries as well as the main channel, and a gauge in it may be on any of them.

What each gauge’s link to this water rests on
Gauge	Evidence	Established
SAGUACHE CREEK NEAR SAGUACHE, CO	Stated by the publisher — USGS site service, huc_cd field — https://waterservices.usgs.gov/nwis/site/ ; named from the USGS Watershed Boundary Dataset 8-digit HU (Subbasin) layer — https://hydro.nationalmap.gov/arcgis/rest/services/wbd/MapServer/4	2026-10-02
LA GARITA CREEK NEAR LA GARITA, CO	Stated by the publisher — USGS site service, huc_cd field — https://waterservices.usgs.gov/nwis/site/ ; named from the USGS Watershed Boundary Dataset 8-digit HU (Subbasin) layer — https://hydro.nationalmap.gov/arcgis/rest/services/wbd/MapServer/4	2026-10-02
CARNERO CREEK NEAR LA GARITA, CO.	Stated by the publisher — USGS site service, huc_cd field — https://waterservices.usgs.gov/nwis/site/ ; named from the USGS Watershed Boundary Dataset 8-digit HU (Subbasin) layer — https://hydro.nationalmap.gov/arcgis/rest/services/wbd/MapServer/4	2026-10-02

What this record holds

Hydrionis decides which waters get a page, and which of those are offered to search, from what is actually held rather than from how the page reads. Five signals are counted; this record has 5 of them, which makes it a full profile.

Information-gain signals held for this water body
Signal	Held	Counts
Gauges holding a real record	3	yes, 3 or more
Years spanned	117	yes, 20 or more
Values held	1,138	yes, 1000 or more
Distinct measurements	6	yes, 2 or more
Publishers measuring it	2	yes, 2 or more
Official identifiers	1	recorded, not counted

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No bulk download is offered here, which is a licence position rather than a product one: at least one contributing publisher does not permit redistribution. The values can be read on the page, cited, and pointed to at source.

Attribution and citation

Suggested citation for Hydrionis

Hydrionis (2026), Saguache gauge records, accessed 2026-10-05, hydrionis.com/waters/united-states-saguache/

Cite Hydrionis where you rely on values Hydrionis computed, on the method that produced them, or on the compilation itself. The underlying measurements remain the publishers’ and their attribution requirements apply to you directly.

Recommended, not required. Hydrionis does not claim rights over unmodified public data it relayed, and doing arithmetic on somebody else’s measurements does not make them Hydrionis’s. Cite the version and the access date: the Saguache gauge records changes as publishers release and as methods are revised, and a citation without both cannot be checked later. Full guidance is on cite and reuse.

None of the contributing licences requires attribution. Crediting the publishers is still good practice and they are listed above.

Where these figures come from

MeasuredHigh confidence2007-06-04

Source: USGS — National Water Information System, USGS site 08227000, annual peak streamflow. Licence: Open.

Method: The instantaneous maximum discharge of each water year as published by USGS, dated to the day it occurred. One value per October-to-September water year; where the publisher lists both a systematic and a historic peak for a year, the larger is the annual maximum. Values the publisher marks as maximum daily averages are not held here, because they are not instantaneous peaks. Values marked as bounded rather than measured are held as censored observations carrying the bound. Cubic feet per second are converted to cubic metres per second and the publisher unit is recorded alongside.

Rating curves are extrapolated at extreme discharges, so the largest values in a peak series carry the largest measurement uncertainty. Data from the U.S. Geological Survey National Water Information System, a work of the United States government and therefore in the public domain.

Retrieved 1 October 2026.