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This is a list of lakes in Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico is an archipelago composed by an eponymous main island, ... Lagos de Levittown: 16 feet (4.9 m)
Guajataca Lake, or Lago Guajataca, is a reservoir of the Guajataca River created by the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority in 1929. It is located between the municipalities of San Sebastián, Quebradillas, and Isabela in Puerto Rico, [3] [4] and receives most of its water from the Rio Guajataca and Rio Chiquito de Cibao rivers.
Map with highways and waterways in Puerto Rico. List of rivers in Puerto Rico (U.S. Commonwealth), sorted by drainage basin and then alphabetically. There are 47 main rivers and 24 lagoons or reservoirs. [1] Most of Puerto Rico's rivers originate in the Cordillera Central. There are four slopes through which rainwater flows towards the sea.
Dos Bocas Lake is a lake located in the municipalities of Arecibo and Utuado on the island of Puerto Rico.The lake was created from 1937 until it was completed in 1942 with the construction of the Dos Bocas Dam, by the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority for a hydroelectric power plant.
Lake Luchetti (Spanish: Lago de Luchetti, sometimes known as Lago de Yauco, formerly Lago Vegas) [1] is a reservoir located in the municipality of Yauco, Puerto Rico, in the barrios of Naranjo and Vegas. [2] The lake was formerly known as the Vegas Lake (Lago Vegas) after the barrio it is located in.
Levittown is located in the municipalities of Toa Baja and Bayamon (8th Section now known as Fronteras de Bayamon). To the west sits Levittown Lakes or Los Lagos de Levittown, a small man-made lake formed by draining the marshland over which Levittown was built.
The highest elevation point in Puerto Rico, Cerro de Punta (4,390 feet or 1,338 meters), [21] is located in the Cordillera Central, while El Yunque, one of the most popular peaks in Puerto Rico, located in the Sierra de Luquillo and part of El Yunque National Forest, has a maximum elevation of 3,540 feet (1,080 m).
Another nickname is "La Suiza de Puerto Rico" ("The Switzerland of Puerto Rico") which is a reference to Adjuntas' relatively low temperatures. Adjuntas has an average yearly weather of 70 degrees Fahrenheit. [4] Finally, Adjuntas is also called "La tierra de lagos" ("The land of lakes") because of its many lakes. [83]