Lake Cerrillos Water Level
Lago Cerrillos · Ponce, Puerto Rico · operated by Puerto Rico Aqueduct and Sewer Authority (PRASA/AAA)
Water level
166.48 m
above mean sea level · 2026-11-08
At 166.48 m, Lake Cerrillos is well below its seasonal norm — lower than 81.5% of all November days recorded since 1991.
Recorded range
3.39 – 194.12 m
Position in range
85.5%
Seasonal percentile
18.5%
Record since
1991
No operating thresholds are published in an open format for this reservoir, so no official status is shown. The measured level and its seasonal standing are shown instead.
Drought context
Puerto Rico drought →U.S. Drought Monitor
D1Moderate 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 (3.39 m to 194.12 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
38.03 hm³
National Inventory of Dams
USGS gauge
50113950
Daily values, 15-minute source data
Municipality
Ponce
South Puerto Rico
Primary use
water supply
PRASA / AAA
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.