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Live river level, flow, historical records and forecast for Canal de Aguadilla above Lago Ramey, Aguadilla PR in PR, United States, built from official government gauge data.
Canal de Aguadilla above Lago Ramey, Aguadilla PR is a gauged river in the Cibuco-Guajataca watershed, Puerto Rico.
This station sits on a short, rain-fed reach where water levels can move quickly after heavy rainfall. In a place like this, the useful question is not whether the channel changes, but how far and how fast it changes. With 22 years on record, this gauge gives a workable local baseline for that kind of watching.
For people near the canal, the seasonal range is modest but real. The typical highest month is September at 1.77 ft (0.54 m), while the typical lowest month is January at 1.6 ft (0.49 m). That is only a 2.1 in (5.3 cm) swing in a typical year, which matters for any dock, crossing, or intake that needs to stay set for the dry season and still handle wetter weeks later on.
The record high is 2.63 ft (0.8 m), set in March 2005. The record low is 0.51 ft (0.16 m), set in April 2024. Those two ends of the record show the range this reach has already put on the page. If you work or fish here, that range is the part to remember: the canal can sit near its usual level for long stretches, then still move well outside the seasonal average when rainfall is hard and fast.
The seasonal figures also help with planning. September is the month to watch for the higher typical level, and January is the month to expect the lower one. That is the kind of spread that affects shallow access, bank exposure, and whether a fixed mark is useful from one part of the year to the next.
The hero reading on this page is best read against the median for the same calendar day, not as a raw elevation by itself. A single level says where the water is right now; the daily median says whether that reading is high, low, or near normal for this date at this station.
That matters here because USGS has 22 years of record to compare against. A reading that sits above the day’s median means the canal is running higher than usual for this time of year; a reading below it means the opposite. For a reach like this, that context is what helps with day-to-day decisions.
Readings come from official government gauges and are rolled into daily records: the daily mean, high and low for every day on record. Each calendar day gets its own baseline from the full history, so the level you see is compared against what this specific date usually looks like rather than an annual average.
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