Lakes of Bendakaluru

Satellite view: Esri, Maxar, Earthstar Geographics

Chinnammanakere

Kere, a large tank, in Agara village, Bengaluru South taluk

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Size
1.55 acresSmaller than a football pitch
Rank by size
1313th largestOf 1,621 lakes that still exist
Valley
Suvarnamukhi
Who looks after it
ZPZilla Panchayat
Water quality
Not tested for water quality yet
Built over
0% of the lakeSatellite, 2021. The 2018 survey found 3% encroached.

Through the years

Nothing on record for 1914 to 1983.

The records listed below, drawn on one line from 1913 to 2026.

  1. 1913

    Built

    As the 2018 lake survey records it

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  2. 1984-2021

    Held water in 15 of 38 years

    Water in 3% of all satellite passes, 1984-2024

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

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  3. 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

  4. 2018

    Still there in the 2018 lake survey

    3% encroached, clean and polluted, 3.73 acres surveyed

    See source

  5. 2025-2026

    Mostly floating weed 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

    • 0% open water
    • 86% floating weed
    • 14% dry or built

    Dry season, Mar 2026 to May 2026

    • 0% open water
    • 0% floating weed
    • 100% dry or built
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How big it is

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

Drawn outline
1.55 acres

Smaller than a football pitch

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2018 lake survey
3.73 acres

About 2.1 football pitches

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End to end
116 m

The longest straight line across the outline

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Deepest point, 2018
1.5 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
Clean and polluted
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What pollutes it, 2018

Sewage

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Sewage flows in, 2018

From the south-east

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

Inlet and outlet tests, 2017-18 lake survey

DateWhereWater temperature°CLight transparencycmpHConductivityµS/cmDissolved solidsmg/LSuspended solidsmg/LTurbidityNTUDissolved oxygenmg/LCODmg/LBODmg/LTotal phosphateKjeldahl nitrogenmg/L as NTotal coliformMPN/100mL
2018-02-0929.2197.96744242114.84.48165.37112.621
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How much is built over

Built inside the outline
0%

From satellite land cover, 2021

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Encroached area, 2017
1.02 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 south-east and east side

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Dumped in it

Garbage & construction debris

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Other problems noted

Borwell

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Land record maps
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Land within 500 m

54% trees, 30% shrubs, 6% crops, 5% grass, 5% built, 0.7% bare ground

From satellite land cover, 2021

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Who looks after it

Looked after by
Zilla Panchayat

ZP

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Where its water comes from and goes

Valley
Suvarnamukhi

The river basin its water drains to

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Catchment
0.1 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

3 inlet drains, no overflow weirs, 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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What lives here

Birds recorded
1 species

Most seen: Tickell's Blue Flycatcher.

2 sightings, mostly from birdwatchers

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All wildlife recorded
3 species

4 records, 2022 to 2026

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Photographed on iNaturalist
7 times

2 species, 3 confirmed by other naturalists.

Most seen: Tickell's Blue Flycatcher and Common Four-ring.

Last seen Aug 2026

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Animals seen, 2018 survey

Birds, butterflies and dragonflies

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Water plants, 2018 survey

Emergent, submerged and rooted floating

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Weed cover, 2018 survey

Partial

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Around it

Around it in 2018

Settlement, farmhouse, plantation & hill

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Photos

No photos of it on Wikimedia Commons yet.

Where it is

Greater Bengaluru
Outside the city limits
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Village
Agara

Kengeri hobli, Bengaluru South taluk, Bengaluru Urban district

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Land survey numbers

76

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Height above sea level
798 m
See source
Coordinates

12.8321° N, 77.5003° E

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Read more

Its number in each record
ATREE lake map
9
2018 lake survey
BUBSKGagr_kr4-1153
Lake Development Authority
LDA097
KGIS tank map
64