Bureau of Reclamation Reference Data API

The Reference Data API from Bureau of Reclamation — 4 operation(s) for reference data.

Operations 4

GET /generation-effort List generation efforts #
GET /reclamation-region List Reclamation regions #
GET /state List states #
GET /unified-region List unified regions #

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OpenAPI Specification

bureau-of-reclamation-reference-data-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Reclamation Information Sharing Environment (RISE) Catalog Reference Data API
  version: '1.0'
  description: Minimal OpenAPI 3.1 description of the Bureau of Reclamation's RISE API, which exposes catalog, location, parameter, model run, and time series result resources for water resource data across Reclamation regions.
  x-generated-from: https://data.usbr.gov/rise/api
  x-generated-by: claude-crawl-2026-05-08
servers:
- url: https://data.usbr.gov/rise/api
  description: Production
tags:
- name: Reference Data
paths:
  /generation-effort:
    get:
      tags:
      - Reference Data
      summary: List generation efforts
      operationId: listGenerationEfforts
      responses:
        '200':
          description: OK
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/CollectionResponse'
  /reclamation-region:
    get:
      tags:
      - Reference Data
      summary: List Reclamation regions
      operationId: listReclamationRegions
      responses:
        '200':
          description: OK
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/CollectionResponse'
  /state:
    get:
      tags:
      - Reference Data
      summary: List states
      operationId: listStates
      responses:
        '200':
          description: OK
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/CollectionResponse'
  /unified-region:
    get:
      tags:
      - Reference Data
      summary: List unified regions
      operationId: listUnifiedRegions
      responses:
        '200':
          description: OK
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/CollectionResponse'
components:
  schemas:
    CollectionResponse:
      type: object
      additionalProperties: true