Reservoir · Colombia
Embalse del Peñol
Lake in Colombia
- Area
- 51.4km²
- Average depth
- 24m
- Elevation
- 1,881m a.s.l.
- Shoreline
- 365km
- Volume
- 1.2km³
Embalse del Peñol is a reservoir in Colombia. It covers 51.4 km². On average it is 24 m deep. Its surface lies 1,881 m above sea level.
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The water
Water temperature
There is no reliable satellite record of the water temperature for this lake yet.
On the shore, afternoons reach 26 °C on average in February and 23 °C in November. The driest month is February (72 mm of rain), the wettest May (212 mm).
From above
The whole lake from space
Month by month
The year at the lake, month by month
Not a forecast: these are averages over many years. Water is the 2013–2021 average; air, rain, sun and wind are the 1991–2020 average.
Climate: 1991–2020 average
| Month | Water°C | Water high°C | Air high°C | Air low°C | Rainmm | Rainy daysdays | Sunh/day | Windkm/h |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | — | — | 25 | 16 | 78 | 15 | 6.9 | 3 |
| February | — | — | 26 | 17 | 72 | 16 | 6.6 | 3 |
| March | — | — | 26 | 17 | 117 | 22 | 5.6 | 3 |
| April | — | — | 25 | 17 | 189 | 25 | 5.7 | 3 |
| May | — | — | 24 | 18 | 212 | 27 | 6.6 | 3 |
| June | — | — | 24 | 17 | 140 | 23 | 7.4 | 3 |
| July | — | — | 25 | 17 | 131 | 22 | 7.9 | 3 |
| August | — | — | 26 | 17 | 143 | 23 | 7.7 | 3 |
| September | — | — | 25 | 17 | 153 | 24 | 7.4 | 3 |
| October | — | — | 24 | 17 | 204 | 27 | 6.5 | 3 |
| November | — | — | 23 | 17 | 176 | 25 | 6.4 | 3 |
| December | — | — | 24 | 17 | 103 | 19 | 6.7 | 3 |
Water: LakeTEMP (Landsat 8, 2013–2021). Air, rain, sun and wind: NASA POWER, 1991–2020 averages. A rainy day has at least 1 mm of rain. Sunshine hours are derived from measured solar radiation.
Size & depth
How big, how deep
- On average, water stays in the lake for about 9 months before flowing out.
- Its catchment drains 1,237 km² of land.
- About 54 m³ of water flow out every second, on average.
- Its shoreline is 14.3 times longer than a circle of the same area: plenty of bays and inlets.
Around the shore
What's around Embalse del Peñol
Counted within 1.5 km of the shoreline in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit.
- 2beaches and swimming spots
Good swimming spot
- —campsites
- —boat hire and water-sport clubs
- 5marinas and slipways
Hotel Santa Maria de las Aguas
- —ferry piers
- 15viewpoints
Mirador del Peñol, El Marial - Mirador, perfect view of rock and lake, Lake and Piedra Mirador and 11 more
- 63hotels, B&Bs and chalets
Hotel Dumar, Los Recuerdos, Lake View Hostel, Tomato Cafe Hostel, Galeria Guatape Hostel and 58 more
- —fishing spots
- 104restaurants and cafés
Towns on the shore
- Guatapé5,389 people
Nearest airport with scheduled flights: Jose Maria Córdova International Airport (MDE), 31 km in a straight line.
OpenStreetMap is built by volunteers: when a number is low, it may just mean nobody has mapped it yet.
Recent years
How each month compared
Afternoon high on the shore. The first row is the reference, the 1991–2020 average in °C; the years below show the difference from it: warmer in orange, cooler in blue.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1991–2020 average | 24.8 | 26.1 | 25.9 | 24.6 | 24.2 | 24.4 | 25.0 | 25.5 | 25.1 | 23.6 | 23.1 | 23.7 |
| 2020 | −0.2 | +0.4 | +0.5 | +0.8 | +2.1 | +0.8 | −1.2 | −1.2 | −0.9 | +0.7 | +0.6 | +1.9 |
| 2021 | +1.4 | +0.1 | +0.2 | +1.7 | +3.5 | +3.0 | +4.1 | +1.9 | +2.4 | +1.1 | +0.6 | +0.1 |
| 2022 | −0.4 | −0.7 | −2.1 | −1.4 | −0.4 | −1.5 | −1.2 | −1.9 | −1.7 | −0.9 | −0.5 | −0.5 |
| 2023 | −1.7 | −1.6 | −2.6 | −0.5 | +0.5 | +0.2 | −0.5 | −0.2 | +1.6 | +0.8 | +1.1 | +2.0 |
| 2024 | +4.5 | +2.4 | +3.5 | +2.1 | +0.4 | −0.5 | −0.4 | −1.0 | −0.4 | +0.5 | −0.6 | −0.3 |
| 2025 | −0.5 | −2.5 | −2.1 | −1.0 | −0.2 | −0.5 | −0.6 | −1.5 | −1.1 | −0.4 | +0.4 | −0.7 |
+1 warmer than usual −1 cooler than usual
Nearby
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About these numbers
| Outline, area, depth, volume | HydroLAKES v1.0 (Messager et al. 2016) · CC BY 4.0 |
|---|---|
| Water temperature and ice | LakeTEMP v1 (Korver et al. 2024), Landsat 8 2013–2021 · CC BY 4.0 |
| Air, rain, sun, wind | NASA POWER, 1991–2020 · public domain |
| Names and description | Wikidata (Q3214861) · CC0 |
| Around the shore | © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL |
| Images | EOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
Every figure is an average or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
