Lake El Guineo Water Level
Lago El Guineo · Orocovis, Puerto Rico · operated by Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA/AEE)
Water level
902.45 m
above mean sea level · 2026-11-08
OverflowAt 902.45 m, Lake El Guineo is above its seasonal norm — higher than 82.9% of all November days recorded since 1990.
Recorded range
891.92 – 903.07 m
Position in range
94.4%
Seasonal percentile
82.9%
Record since
1990
Official operating levels (PREPA)
Overflow
902.21 m
Safety
899.16 m
Observation
897.33 m
Adjustments
895.50 m
Control
893.98 m
Out of service
892.76 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
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 1990 (891.92 m to 903.07 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
2.29 hm³
National Inventory of Dams
USGS gauge
50032290
Daily values, 15-minute source data
Municipality
Orocovis
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.