Lakes of Bendakaluru

Satellite view: Esri, Maxar, Earthstar Geographics

Beratena Agrahara Lake

Kere, a large tank, in Chikkathoguru ward, Bengaluru South

See it on the map
Size
8.10 acresAbout 4.6 football pitches
Rank by size
848th largestOf 1,621 lakes that still exist
Valley
Dakshina Pinakini
Who looks after it
BBMPBruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike
Water quality
Not tested for water quality yet
Built over
2% of the lakeSatellite, 2021. The 2018 survey found 3% encroached.

Through the years

Nothing on record for 1904 to 1979 and 1981 to 1983.

The records listed below, drawn on one line from 1903 to 2026.

  1. 1903

    Built

    As the 2018 lake survey records it

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  2. 1980

    On the survey map

    See source

  3. 1984-2021

    Held water in 3 of 38 years

    Water in 0.2% of all satellite passes, 1984-2024

    See sourceSee source

  4. 2017-2018

    In the water bodies census, not marked as encroached

    This census's status marks are often wrong

    See source

  5. 2017-2025

    Mostly built on or bare every year

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

    See source

  6. 2018

    Still there in the 2018 lake survey

    3% encroached, polluted, 11.4 acres surveyed

    See source

  7. 2024

    On the state's list of Bengaluru lakes, looked after by BBMP

    See source

  8. 2025-2026

    Mostly dry or built after the monsoon and in the dry season

    After monsoon, Oct 2025 to Dec 2025

    • 0% open water
    • 3% floating weed
    • 97% dry or built

    Dry season, Mar 2026 to May 2026

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

How big it is

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

Drawn outline
8.10 acres

About 4.6 football pitches

See source
Land records
11.4 acres

About 6.5 football pitches

See source
2018 lake survey
11.4 acres

About 6.5 football pitches

See source
End to end
394 m

The longest straight line across the outline

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Deepest point, 2018
2 m
See source
Kind of lake
Kere, a large tank
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How clean the water is

State pollution board
Not tested by the state board
How it looked in 2018
Polluted
See source
What pollutes it, 2018

Sewage

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Sewage flows in, 2018

From the central west

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How much is built over

Built inside the outline
2%

From satellite land cover, 2021

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Encroached area, 2017
0.47 acres

Reported by the state legislature’s committee on lake encroachment

See source
Encroached by

The public and private owners

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Taken for

Church, mud road, school ground & houses

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Where it is encroached

On the south-west and north side

See source
Dumped in it

Garbage dump, construction debris

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Land within 500 m

75% built, 12% trees, 7% crops, 4% grass, 0.8% shrubs, 0.7% bare ground

From satellite land cover, 2021

See source

Who looks after it

Looked after by
Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike

BBMP

See source
City work on the lake
To be developed
See source
City zone
Bommanahalli
See source
City lake page

Open its page on the city’s lake monitoring site

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Where its water comes from and goes

Valley
Dakshina Pinakini

The river basin its water drains to

See source
Overflows into

Doddanagamanagala Lake

See source
Catchment
0.6 km²

The land that drains into it

See source
Fed by, 2018 survey

Rain & drain fed

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Built parts, 2018 survey

1 inlet drain, no overflow weirs, no sluice gates, no culverts, no check dams and no islands

See source

What lives here

Birds recorded
51 species

Most seen: Eurasian Coot, Black Kite, Little Grebe, Indian Pond-Heron and Spotted Dove.

175 sightings, mostly from birdwatchers

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All wildlife recorded
51 species

175 records, 2018 to 2024

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Photographed on iNaturalist
1 times

Last seen Mar 2026

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Animals seen, 2018 survey

Birds and butterflies

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Water plants, 2018 survey

Emergent, free floating and rooted floating

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Weed cover, 2018 survey

Partial

See source

Around it

Around it in 2018

Settlement, vacant land & apartments

See source

Photos

No photos of it on Wikimedia Commons yet.

Where it is

Ward 34
Chikkathoguru

ಚಿಕ್ಕ ತೋಗೂರು

Bengaluru South corporation, Bangalore South assembly seat

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Village
Beratana Agrahara

Begur hobli, Bengaluru South taluk, Bengaluru Urban district

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Land survey numbers

18

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Height above sea level
913 m
See source
Coordinates

12.8654° N, 77.6603° E

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Read more

OpenStreetMap
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Its number in each record
ATREE lake map
250
2018 lake survey
BUBSBGbag_kr1-1417
Lake Development Authority
LDA043
KGIS tank map
986
Water bodies census
2/12/002/276600/1302864/005
City lake monitoring site
140