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Flooding along the Rio Grande in the summer of 1862, destroyed crops in the river valley at
Alamosa. This resulted, in 1863, in the relocation of farms up the Cañada Alamosa to an area watered by springs, near the mountains, below the mouth of a narrow canyon from which the Arroyo Alamosa flowed.
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