Lakes of Bendakaluru

Satellite view: Esri, Maxar, Earthstar Geographics

Chikkabegur Kere

ಚಿಕ್ಕ ಬೇಗೂರು ಕೆರೆ

Also called Chikka Beguru Lake

Kere, a large tank, in Vishwapriya Nagara ward, Bengaluru South

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Size
24.0 acresAbout 14 football pitches
Rank by size
384th largestOf 1,621 lakes that still exist
Valley
Koramangala-Challaghatta
Who looks after it
BBMPBruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike
Water quality
Not tested for water quality yet
Built over
1% of the lakeSatellite, 2021. The 2018 survey found 8% encroached.

Through the years

Nothing on record for 1946 to 1954, 1956 to 1965, 1967 to 1979 and 1981 to 1983.

The records listed below, drawn on one line from 1945 to 2026.

  1. 1945

    On the survey map

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  2. 1955

    On the U.S. Army map

    Compiled from Survey of India maps of 1945-46

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  3. 1966

    Built

    As the 2018 lake survey records it

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  4. 1980

    On the survey map

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  5. 1984-2021

    Held water until 2018

    Water in 6% of all satellite passes, 1984-2024

    10% of its water area has since gone dry; 0% is new water

    4 years not counted: the satellite saw under half the lake

    Floating weed looks like dry land to this record, so a weed-covered year can read as dry

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  6. 2017-2018

    In the water bodies census, not marked as encroached

    This census's status marks are often wrong

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  7. 2017-2025

    Mostly plants or weed every year

    Floating weed shows as crops or grass here, not as water

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

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  8. 2018

    Still there in the 2018 lake survey

    8% encroached, polluted, 42.4 acres surveyed

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  9. 2025-2026

    Mostly floating weed after the monsoon and in the dry season

    After monsoon, Oct 2025 to Dec 2025

    • 0% open water
    • 88% floating weed
    • 12% dry or built

    Dry season, Mar 2026 to May 2026

    • 0% open water
    • 82% floating weed
    • 18% dry or built
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How big it is

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

Drawn outline
24.0 acres

About 14 football pitches

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Land records
42.4 acres

About 24 football pitches

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2018 lake survey
42.4 acres

About 24 football pitches

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End to end
561 m

The longest straight line across the outline

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Deepest point, 2018
3.5 m
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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
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What pollutes it, 2018

Sewage, human defecation & cattle wading

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Sewage flows in, 2018

From the east

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Inlet and outlet tests, 2017-18
2 readings
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Every reading
Show every reading

Inlet and outlet tests, 2017-18 lake survey

DateWhereWater temperature°CpHConductivityµS/cmDissolved solidsmg/LSuspended solidsmg/LTurbidityNTUDissolved oxygenmg/LCODmg/LBODmg/LTotal phosphateKjeldahl nitrogenmg/L as NTotal coliformMPN/100mL
2018-01-10Inlet247.51,5481,14611863.10.619235.474.624.51,600
2018-01-10Outlet21.97.51,4188303261.60.66411.13.431.51,600
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How much is built over

Built inside the outline
1%

From satellite land cover, 2021

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Encroached area, 2017
4.10 acres

Reported by the state legislature’s committee on lake encroachment

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Encroached by

The public and government agencies

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Taken for

Houses & road

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Where it is encroached

On the north-west, north, north-east and east side

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Dumped in it

Garbage dump, construction debris

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Land record maps
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Land within 500 m

82% built, 7% trees, 5% grass, 5% crops, 2% bare ground, 0.6% shrubs

From satellite land cover, 2021

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Who looks after it

Looked after by
Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike

BBMP

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City work on the lake
To be developed
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City zone
Bommanahalli
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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
Koramangala-Challaghatta

The river basin its water drains to

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Water comes from
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Overflows into

Agara Lake

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Catchment
3.3 km²

The land that drains into it

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Fed by, 2018 survey

Rain & drain fed

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Built parts, 2018 survey

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

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Used for, 2018 survey

Cattle feeding

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Nearest sewage treatment plant

Chikkabeguru Sewage Treatment Plant

216 m away

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What lives here

Birds recorded
62 species

Most seen: Black Kite, Common Myna, Indian Pond-Heron, Western Swamphen and Ashy Prinia.

248 sightings, mostly from birdwatchers

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All wildlife recorded
64 species

250 records, 2015 to 2024

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Threatened species seen here
1
  • Spot-billed Pelican near threatened
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Animals seen, 2018 survey

Birds

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Water plants, 2018 survey

Emergent, free floating and rooted floating

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Weed cover, 2018 survey

Partial

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Around it

Around it in 2018

Settlement, layout, vacant land & graveyard

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Photos

No photos of it on Wikimedia Commons yet.

Where it is

Ward 35
Vishwapriya Nagara

ವಿಶ್ವಪ್ರಿಯ ನಗರ

Bengaluru South corporation, Bangalore South assembly seat

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Village
Begur

Begur hobli, Bengaluru South taluk, Bengaluru Urban district

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Land survey numbers

168 (Begur), 86 (Singasandra)

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Height above sea level
899 m
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Coordinates

12.8855° N, 77.6367° E

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Read more

OpenStreetMap
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Its number in each record
ATREE lake map
110
2018 lake survey
BUBSBGbgu_kr2-1405
Lake Development Authority
LDA084
KGIS tank map
968
Water bodies census
2/12/002/276600/1302864/004
City lake monitoring site
135