Gillespie Creek is an intermittent
stream
A stream is a continuous body of water, body of surface water Current (stream), flowing within the stream bed, bed and bank (geography), banks of a channel (geography), channel. Depending on its location or certain characteristics, a stream ...
or
arroyo
Arroyo often refers to:
* Arroyo (creek), an intermittently dry creek
Arroyo may also refer to:
People
* Arroyo (surname)
Places United States
;California
* Arroyo Burro Beach, a public beach park in Santa Barbara County, California
* Arroyo ...
in
Hidalgo County, New Mexico. Gillespie Creek is 11 miles long, that heads in the
Animas Mountains at , and flows northeasterly until it ends in the
Playas Valley, at an elevation of . Its waters in flood would reach
Playas Lake. Its mouth is located 24 miles south southeast of
Animas.
Bennett Creek is a
tributary that has its confluence with Gillespie Creek at an elevation of .
References
Rivers of Hidalgo County, New Mexico
Rivers of New Mexico
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