GUAYO DAM

This dam is located in the central part the West of Puerto Rico, closely together of the Castaņer town between the district of Bartolo de Lares and Guayabo Dulce of Adjuntas. Highway PR-128 takes until this dam from Lares. The Lake is formed by a concrete dam of 190 feet of height on the Guayo River. It also receives water through tunnel from the dam of Yahuecas. Its normal capacity is of 15.572 acre feet with a surface of 285 acres at the overflowing level (1.460 feet on the level of the sea). The pick up area is of 9.6 miles square. It has approximately 100 feet of maximum depth and two miles in length.

The Guayo dam was finished in the 1956. The Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority   designed and constructed it like the greatest part of the system of electrical hydro generation and irrigation of the Valley of Lajas, called Project of the Southwest. This concrete dam, dams waters of the rivers Guayo and Cidra. It contributes most of the water that is used for electrical hydro generation in the plants of Yauco and for the irrigation of the Valley of Lajas.