Rio Grande GIS Data ViewerSustainable Agricultural Water Conservation in the Rio Grande
Pre-made GIS Maps | Base Maps | DEMS | Water Resources | Water Demand | Water Quality | Land Use & Land Cover | Download Data

This web site contains the GIS data collected for the USDA Project -- Sustainable Water Resource Management in the Rio Grande Basin. With this application, users can:

  • Display and query all the GIS data
  • Download GIS data in the format of shapefiles and geodatabases
  • Explore and download premade GIS maps in three different graphic formats - GIF, PDF and TIFF

Rio Grande Basin Base Maps displays

  • cities and populated places
  • schools
  • recreation areas
  • parks
  • road networks
  • county boundaries
  • state boundaries
  • boundary between the two countries

base map

Rio Grande Basin Physical Features

  • DEM (1 km resolution)
  • Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (approximately 90 meters resolution)
  • Hillshade

physical features

Rio Grande Basin Water Resources viewer displays data of

  • Estimated mean annual natural ground-water recharge
  • Realtime U.S.G.S. stream gages
  • Rivers, streams and other water bodys
  • Dams
  • Principal aquifers
  • Minor aquifers
  • Wells

water resource

Displays the 1992 land use and land cover data of the Rio Grande Basin on the U.S. side.The data was derived from the 1992 National Land Cover Data (NLCD 1992).

Lanuse andland cover

Water Demand

water demand

Water Quality rela

Displays data of
  • drinking water supply sites
  • mineral industry locations
  • toxic release inventory sites
  • national sediment inventory stations
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water quality