On the site now

Majestic Kempegowda BMTC bus terminal

Satellite view: Esri, Maxar, Earthstar Geographics

Dharmambudy Lake

Also called Dharmambudhi Lake

Kere, a large tank, in Nehru Nagar ward, Bengaluru Central

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Size in the 2018 survey

28.4 acresAbout 16 football pitches

Rank by size

DisappearedGone by 2016

Valley

No valley on record

Who looks after it

BBMPBruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike

Water quality

Not tested for water quality yet

Built over

No survey of building on record

Through the years

Nothing on record for 1909 to 1944, 1946 to 1979 and 1981 to 1983.

No open water seen by satellite, 1984-2021

What covers it each year:waterbuilt on or bareplants or weed

1908

1945

1980

1984

1908
Built
As the 2018 lake survey records it
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1945
On the survey map
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1980
Not on the survey map
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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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2016
Gone by 2016, says the 2018 lake survey
28.4 acres surveyed
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2017-2025
Mostly built on or bare every year
The lake is known only as a point or is under a quarter acre, so the shares are rough
About three in four of these readings are right, so trust what holds for several years
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2025-2026
Mostly dry or built 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
0% floating weed
100% 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

2018 lake survey

28.4 acres

About 16 football pitches

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Kind of lake

Kere, a large tank

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What took its place

On the site now

Majestic Kempegowda BMTC bus terminal

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Filled in by

Government agencies

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Around it in 2018

Buildings, city railway station

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How clean the water is

Not tested for water quality yet.

How much is built over

Land within 500 m

86% built, 13% trees, 1% crops

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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Where its water comes from and goes

Nearest sewage treatment plant

Sewage Treatment Plant

2.1 km away

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What lives here

Birds recorded

17 species

Most seen: Black Kite, Rock Pigeon, House Crow, Large-billed Crow and Common Myna.

225 sightings, mostly from birdwatchers

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All wildlife recorded

20 species

228 records, 1991 to 2024

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Threatened species seen here

Teak endangered

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Photographed on iNaturalist

23 times

13 species, 8 confirmed by other naturalists.

Most seen: House Crow, Blank Swift, Domestic Dog, Clanis bilineata and Brown‐spotted Locust.

Last seen Apr 2026

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Photos

No photos of it on Wikimedia Commons yet.

Where it is

Ward 59

Nehru Nagar

ನೆಹರು ನಗರ

Bengaluru Central corporation, Gandhinagara assembly seat

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Village

Bangalore Old City (Kasaba Bangalore)

Kasaba hobli, Bengaluru North taluk, Bengaluru Urban district

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Height above sea level

913 m

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Coordinates

12.9773° N, 77.5714° E

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Wikipedia

Dharmambudhi Lake, also known as Dharmambudhi Tank, was a historic water reservoir in central Bengaluru, India. It was one of the principal sources of water for the city's Pete area from at least the 16th century through the 19th century. The reservoir was drained in the early 20th century, and its former bed was filled in during the early 1960s for construction of the city's central bus terminus, now the Kempegowda Bus Station.

Read Dharmambudhi Lake on Wikipedia

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Wikidata

Q141285008

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Its number in each record