Lake Caonillas Water Level
Lago Caonillas · Utuado, Puerto Rico · operated by Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA/AEE)
Water level
251.87 m
above mean sea level · 2026-11-08
SafetyAt 251.87 m, Lake Caonillas is above its seasonal norm — higher than 86.3% of all November days recorded since 1991.
Recorded range
224.95 – 254.23 m
Position in range
91.9%
Seasonal percentile
86.3%
Record since
1991
Official operating levels (PREPA)
Overflow
252.00 m
Safety
248.00 m
Observation
244.00 m
Adjustments
242.01 m
Control
235.00 m
Out of service
227.99 m
These are the thresholds the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority publishes for this reservoir. They, not a storage percentage, are what trigger operational adjustments and rationing decisions on the island.
Drought context
Puerto Rico drought →U.S. Drought Monitor
Noneno drought
Week of 3 November 2026
Drought figures describe the ground around the reservoir, not its storage. Sources: U.S. Drought Monitor.
The chart plots where the water level sits inside the range this reservoir has recorded since 1991 (224.95 m to 254.23 m). It is a level position, not a share of storage capacity — Puerto Rico does not publish reservoir volume.
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Dam and gauge
Design capacity
43.4 hm³
National Inventory of Dams
USGS gauge
50026140
Daily values, 15-minute source data
Municipality
Utuado
Central Puerto Rico
Primary use
hydropower
PREPA / AEE
Design capacity is the volume the dam was built to impound, from the US Army Corps of Engineers' National Inventory of Dams. It describes the size of the reservoir — it is not used to compute a fill percentage, because the elevation-to-volume curve needed for that is not published for Puerto Rico.