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Lake Matrullas Water Level

Lago de Matrullas · Orocovis, Puerto Rico · operated by Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA/AEE)

Water level

732.99 m

above mean sea level · 2026-08-08

At 732.99 m, Lake Matrullas is well below its seasonal norm — lower than 75.7% of all August days recorded since 1990.

Recorded range

724.07 – 737.18 m

Position in range

68%

Seasonal percentile

24.3%

Record since

1990

Operating thresholds are published for this reservoir but do not pass our consistency check, so no official status is shown here. See the methodology note on the Puerto Rico page.

The chart plots where the water level sits inside the range this reservoir has recorded since 1990 (724.07 m to 737.18 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

3.71 hm³

National Inventory of Dams

USGS gauge

50032590

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.

Data source:USGS NWIS·Last reading: 2026-08-08

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