Lake Carite Water Level
Lago Carite · Guayama, Puerto Rico · operated by Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA/AEE)
Water level
542.57 m
above mean sea level · 2026-10-12
SafetyAt 542.57 m, Lake Carite is well below its seasonal norm — lower than 84.3% of all October days recorded since 2005.
Recorded range
538.27 – 544.92 m
Position in range
64.7%
Seasonal percentile
15.7%
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.
Drought context
Drought Monitor at this site · 6 October 2026
D1moderate drought
The ground at Lake Carite's coordinates falls inside the D1 area of the weekly U.S. Drought Monitor map. That describes local conditions — rainfall, soil moisture, streamflow — not the reservoir's storage. Puerto Rico drought figures →
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.