GUAJATACA DAM

The Guajataca Dam located in the municipalities of Quebradillas, Isabela and San Sebastián, like an average distance between the towns of Quebradillas and San Sebastián, by highway PR-119. The Lake is formed by a land dam of 123 feet of height on Guajataca River. Its normal capacity of dam is 34,276 acre feet and the normal surface is of 1000 acres. The waters that catch come from a river basin of 30.8 miles square. Its maximum depth is of approximately 65 feet and has a length of almost five miles.

The Guajataca Dam was constructed between the 1919 at 1928. In 1982 it was rehabilitated and stabilized to a cost of more than thirteen million. Their waters are used for the consumption of almost all the populations of the Northwest of Puerto Rico and also for the system of irrigation. Formerly hydroelectric energy in four plants already left took place.