Stream Water Catchment in the Tropics - Design Needed Please!

My land has plenty of water with several year-round streams. I need a design for a catchment system to feed a ram pump that will not be destroyed or filled with mud every time we get a big rain.    Short YouTube vid of one of the streams

Normally with a Hydraulic Ram, catchment dams are not necessary, sometimes a small stop can be built to hold the pipe entry point stable.
The drive pipe just has to be higher than the ram and located upstream enough to generate the momentum of water to drive the Ram.
Looking at the video, there does not seem to be evidence of mud having flowed down.

rampumps design process
If you are into maths, here is the equation;
'The percentage of the drive water pumped to the desired point may be approximately 22% when the vertical fall from the water source to the pump is half of the elevation lift from the ram to the water outlet.  It may be as low as 2% or less when the vertical fall from the water source to the pump is 4% of the elevation lift from the ram to the water outlet.
Rife Hydraulic Engine Manufacturing Company literature (http://www.riferam.com/) offers the following equation:
0.6 x Q x F/E  = D
Q is the available drive flow in gallons per minute, F is the fall in feet from the water source to the ram, E is the elevation from the ram to the water outlet, and D is the flow rate of the delivery water in gallons per minute.  0.6 is an efficiency factor and will differ somewhat between various ram pumps.
For instance, if 12 gallons per minute is available to operate a ram pump (D), the pump is placed 6 feet below the water source (F), and the water will be pumped up an elevation of 20 feet to the outlet point (E), the amount of water that may be pumped with an appropriately-sized ram pump is...."

Thank you John, I have been using a gravity fed system, catching the water on a neighbor's land, upstream from my own land. The catchment tube is regularly washed out and/or filled with mud during rain events. Unfortunately, all of the surrounding land has been cleared, so there is a lot of sediment washed into the streams by our regular heavy tropical rains. Your reply makes me think that maybe I can find a place on my own, still forested, land where the mud will not be as big of an issue.  Maybe I can just drill an anchor into the rock to hold the intake against huge flow increase during heavy rains. I have plenty of flow and fall. The stream closest to the house has easily 5 times the flow of the one in the vid, with at least 10 meters of fall. My long term dreams include using this water flow resource to generate compressed air with a trompe to aerate tilapia ponds. We are permanently moving to the farm this January, just as the next rainy season begins. I guess I will have to go out in the rain and observe the streams to find a good place to capture some flow while avoiding the mud that has always plagued my gravity flow system. Thanks again for your reply.

Paul, your new plan sounds good.
Floods do wipe out riverside equipment.
You may be lucky with just a pipe attached securely, and even held down by poking it under a large rock.
I will look forward to some images etc of the system and the property as you progress.
Where is the property?

We are just south of the equator on the western slopes of the Andes mountains in Ecuador at about 2300 feet altitude.