Lakes of Bendakaluru

Satellite view: Esri, Maxar, Earthstar Geographics

Bhimmanakuppe Govt Lake

ಭೀಮನಕಟ್ಟೆ ಕೆರೆ

Also called Bheemana katte, Bheemanakatte Lake

Katte, a medium tank, in Bangarappa Nagara ward, Bengaluru West

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Size
0.83 acresSmaller than a football pitch
Rank by size
1420th largestOf 1,621 lakes that still exist
Valley
Vrishabhavathi
Who looks after it
BBMPBruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike
Water quality
Not tested for water quality yet
Built over
5% of the lakeSatellite land cover, 2021

Through the years

Nothing on record for 1959 to 1983.

The records listed below, drawn on one line from 1958 to 2026.

  1. 1958

    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. 2017-2018

    In the water bodies census, not marked as encroached

    This census's status marks are often wrong

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  4. 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

  5. 2018

    Still there in the 2018 lake survey

    Clean, 1.57 acres surveyed

    See source

  6. 2024

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

    See source

  7. 2025-2026

    Part floating weed, part dry or built after the monsoon; mostly dry or built in the dry season

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

    After monsoon, Oct 2025 to Dec 2025

    • 11% open water
    • 44% floating weed
    • 44% dry or built

    Dry season, Mar 2026 to May 2026

    • 11% open water
    • 19% floating weed
    • 69% dry or built
    See source

How big it is

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

Drawn outline
0.83 acres

Smaller than a football pitch

See source
2018 lake survey
1.57 acres

Smaller than a football pitch

See source
End to end
105 m

The longest straight line across the outline

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Deepest point, 2018
1.5 m
See source
Kind of lake
Katte, a medium tank
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How clean the water is

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

Human defecation

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How much is built over

Built inside the outline
5%

From satellite land cover, 2021

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Land within 500 m

50% built, 24% trees, 10% shrubs, 9% grass, 7% crops, 1% bare ground

From satellite land cover, 2021

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Who looks after it

Looked after by
Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike

BBMP

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
Vrishabhavathi

The river basin its water drains to

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Water comes from
See source
Overflows into

Halagevaderahalli Kere-2

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Catchment
0.7 km²

The land that drains into it

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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

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Used for, 2018 survey

Fishing and religious activity

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Nearest sewage treatment plant

Vrishabhavathi Valley 150MLD Sewage Treatment Plant

2.3 km away, treats 150 million litres a day

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What lives here

Birds recorded
98 species

Most seen: Black Kite, Red-whiskered Bulbul, Rose-ringed Parakeet, Spotted Dove and Common Myna.

1,914 sightings, mostly from birdwatchers

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All wildlife recorded
98 species

1,914 records, 2020 to 2024

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Photographed on iNaturalist
15 times

11 species, 7 confirmed by other naturalists.

Most seen: billygoat weed, White-breasted Waterhen, Little Heron, Spiny Fiddlewood and Coleus strobilifer.

Last seen Mar 2026

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Animals seen, 2018 survey

Butterflies and dragonflies

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Water plants, 2018 survey

Emergent

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Weed cover, 2018 survey

Partial

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Around it

Around it in 2018

Temple, apartment & quarry

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Photos

No photos of it on Wikimedia Commons yet.

Where it is

Ward 22
Bangarappa Nagara

ಬಂಗಾರಪ್ಪ ನಗರ

Bengaluru West corporation, Rajarajeshwarinagar assembly seat

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Village
J.I.Halagevaderahalli

Kengeri hobli, Bengaluru South taluk, Bengaluru Urban district

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Land survey numbers

138

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Height above sea level
842 m
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Coordinates

12.9151° N, 77.5287° E

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Read more

OpenStreetMap
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Its number in each record
ATREE lake map
502
2018 lake survey
BUBSKGhgv_gk1-1192
KGIS tank map
1169
Water bodies census
2/12/002/276600/1302832/002
City lake monitoring site
164