Lake Carite Water Level
Lago Carite · Guayama, Puerto Rico · operated by Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA/AEE)
Water level
541.99 m
above mean sea level · 2026-08-08
ObservationAt 541.99 m, Lake Carite is well below its seasonal norm — lower than 80.1% of all August days recorded since 2005.
Recorded range
538.27 – 544.92 m
Position in range
55.9%
Seasonal percentile
19.9%
Record since
2005
Official operating levels (PREPA)
Overflow
543.79 m
Safety
542.00 m
Observation
539.00 m
Adjustments
537.00 m
Control
533.00 m
Out of service
529.00 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.
The chart plots where the water level sits inside the range this reservoir has recorded since 2005 (538.27 m to 544.92 m). It is a level position, not a share of storage capacity — Puerto Rico does not publish reservoir volume.
Catchment Weather
Past 30 days + 14-day forecast · Open-Meteo
Dam and gauge
Design capacity
13.95 hm³
National Inventory of Dams
USGS gauge
50039995
Daily values, 15-minute source data
Municipality
Guayama
South 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.