Guajataca Lake
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, and receives most of its water from the Rio Guajataca and Rio Chiquito de Cibao rivers.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Reservoir
- Description: lake in Puerto Rico
- Also known as: “Lake Guajataca”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Guajataka Scout Reservation.
Guajataka Scout Reservation
Campsite
Photo: Jmoliver, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Guajataka Scout Reservation or Camp Guajataka, often simply referred to as Guajataka and nicknamed Santuario de Amistad, is a Scout reservation of the Puerto Rico Council of the Scouting America organization, and the council's only camping grounds.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lares.
Lares
Photo: Yarfpr, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Lares is a municipality and town of Puerto Rico located in the western mountainous Cordillera Central region of the island. The town is most popularly known for the Grito de Lares, a failed 1868 uprising against the Spanish colonial rule which has become a landmark of Puerto Rico's history.
Guajataca Lake
- Category: body of water
- Location: San Sebastián, Northern Coast, Puerto Rico, Caribbean, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
18.36014° or 18° 21′ 37″ northLongitude
-66.91277° or 66° 54′ 46″ westElevation
193 metres (633 feet)Open location code
77CM936P+3VOpenStreetMap ID
way 457744112OpenStreetMap feature
natural=waterOpenStreetMap feature
water=reservoirGeoNames ID
4565084Wikidata ID
Q585237
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Spanish—“Guajataca Lake” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Lago de Guajataco”
- French: “lac de Guajataca”
- French: “Lac de Guajataca”
- German: “Guajataca-Stausee”
- Hungarian: “Guajataca-tó”
- Italian: “lago di Guajataca”
- Italian: “Lago Guajataca”
- Spanish: “Lago de Guajataca (Puerto Rico)”
- Spanish: “Lago de Guajataca”
- Spanish: “Lago Guajataca (Puerto Rico)”
- Spanish: “Lago Guajataca”
Localities in the Area
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Guajataca Lake”. Photo: The Eloquent Peasant, CC BY-SA 4.0.