Embudo Creek also known as Rio Embudo is a river formed by the confluence of the Rio Pueblo and Santa Barbara Creek near Peñasco in Taos County, New Mexico. The Embudo (named after the Spanish word meaning “funnel”) empties into the Rio Grande near the community of Embudo between two distinctively shaped buttes, thus creating a funnel effect after which it is named. Before emptying into the Rio Grande the river flows through Dixon in Rio Arriba County.

The origins of Embudo Creek are in headwaters streams, the Rio Pueblo, Rio Santa Barbara, and Rio de los Trampas near North Truchas Peak (13,024 ft (3,970 m), Jicarita Peak (12,835 ft (3,912 m)), and Trampas Peak 12,172 ft (3,710 m) in the southern Sangre de Cristo Mountains. The headwaters of the Truchas and Santa Barbara rivers are in the Pecos Wilderness. All the rivers flow northwest and the Pueblo and Santa Barbara unite at Picuris Pueblo. The river below their union is called Embudo Creek. The Las Trampas joins the Embudo further downstream. The watershed of the Embubo and its tributaries is 28 miles (45 km) east to west and a maximum of 16 miles (26 km) north to south. The length of the Embudo from the junction of the Pueblo and Santa Barbara rivers to where the Embudo joins the Rio Grande is about 9 miles (14 km). The elevation of the Embudo where it joins the Rio Grande is about 5,800 ft (1,800 m).

Most of the Embudo watershed is located in Taos County but it laps over into Rio Arriba County. The area of the watershed is 305 sq mi (790 km). No incorporated towns or cities are in the watershed, but there are several communities: Dixon, Trampas, Peñasco, and the Picurus Pueblo are the largest. Irrigated agriculture is extensive around these communities.

• Las Trampas Land Grant
• List of rivers of New Mexico
• Mora Land Grant