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The Animas River rises high in San Juan Mountains of Colorado at the confluence of the West and North forks at the Ghost Town of Animas Forks and flows south past the ghost towns of Eureka and Howardsville . At Silverton , the river flows into the Animas Canyon . The Durango And Silverton Narrow Gauge railroad follows the river through the canyon to Durango . From Durango the river flows south into New Mexico through the town of Aztec to its confluence with the San Juan River at Farmington . The Animas is a freestone fishery well populated with Rainbows and Browns and a few Cutthroat and Brook Trout . The only major tributary of the Animas River is the Florida River which conflunces just north of the Colorado - New Mexico border. SEE ALSO |
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