The river flows downstream primarily through private land, but there are areas for fishing brown and rainbow trout below on public land in the town of Mora.

[2] It was called Rio Mora or Rio de lo de Mora on early maps.

There is a separate stream Rio Mora that is a tributary of Pecos River.

[3] The headwaters are located in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains near Chacon.

The stream flows south through Mora, east through La Cueva and Watrous to the confluence at Canadian River, north of Sabinoso.