Lakes of Bendakaluru

Satellite view: Esri, Maxar, Earthstar Geographics

Bannerughatta Kavalu Kunte

Kunte, a small pond, in Bannerughatta Kaval village, Anekal taluk

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Size
1.45 acresSmaller than a football pitch
Rank by size
1330th largestOf 1,621 lakes that still exist
Valley
No valley on record
Who looks after it
BDABangalore Development Authority
Water quality
Not tested for water quality yet
Built over
0% of the lakeSatellite land cover, 2021

Through the years

Nothing on record for 1924 to 1983.

The records listed below, drawn on one line from 1923 to 2026.

  1. 1923

    Built

    As the 2018 lake survey records it

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  2. 1984-2021

    No open water seen in any year

    The lake is small for this record, so treat it as rough

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  3. 2017-2025

    Mostly water every year

    About three in four of these readings are right, so trust what holds for several years

    See source

  4. 2018

    Still there in the 2018 lake survey

    Clean, 0.45 acres surveyed

    See source

  5. 2025-2026

    Mostly floating weed after the monsoon and in the dry season

    The lake is small for these images, so treat the shares as rough

    After monsoon, Oct 2025 to Dec 2025

    • 0% open water
    • 100% floating weed
    • 0% dry or built

    Dry season, Mar 2026 to May 2026

    • 0% open water
    • 100% floating weed
    • 0% dry or built
    See source

How big it is

The records disagree on its size, so each measure is shown.

Drawn outline
1.45 acres

Smaller than a football pitch

See source
2018 lake survey
0.45 acres

Smaller than a football pitch

See source
End to end
109 m

The longest straight line across the outline

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Deepest point, 2018
2 m
See source
Kind of lake
Kunte, a small pond
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How clean the water is

State pollution board
Not tested by the state board
How it looked in 2018
Clean
See source

How much is built over

Built inside the outline
0%

From satellite land cover, 2021

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Land within 500 m

52% trees, 35% shrubs, 11% grass, 1% built, 0.9% crops

From satellite land cover, 2021

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Who looks after it

Looked after by
Bangalore Development Authority

BDA

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Where its water comes from and goes

Built parts, 2018 survey

2 inlet drains, 1 overflow weir, no sluice gates, no culverts, no check dams and no islands

See source
Used for, 2018 survey

Boating

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What lives here

Birds recorded
1 species

Most seen: Purple Sunbird.

1 sightings, mostly from birdwatchers

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All wildlife recorded
4 species

4 records, 2016 to 2021

See source
Photographed on iNaturalist
11 times

5 species, 4 confirmed by other naturalists.

Most seen: Jackfruit, Purple Sunbird, Eudocima homaena, Harmochirus zabkai and Marbled White Moth.

Last seen May 2024

See source
Animals seen, 2018 survey

Birds, butterflies and dragonflies

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Water plants, 2018 survey

Emergent

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Weed cover, 2018 survey

Partial

See source

Around it

Around it in 2018

Inside the banerughatta national park

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Surveyor's note, 2018

Kunte extent increasedupto 2 acres

See source

Photos

Bannerughatta Kavalu Kunte, photographed in 2024
Yercaud-elango / CC BY 4.0 / Wikimedia Commons, 2024

Where it is

Greater Bengaluru
Outside the city limits
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Village
Bannerughatta Kaval

Jigani hobli, Anekal taluk, Bengaluru Urban district

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Land survey numbers

1

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Height above sea level
919 m
See source
Coordinates

12.8001° N, 77.5719° E

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Read more

OpenStreetMap
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Its number in each record
2018 lake survey
BUAKJGbnk_ku1-1043
KGIS tank map
1106