Lakes of Bendakaluru

Satellite view: Esri, Maxar, Earthstar Geographics

Gangondanahalli Lake

Also called Lakkenahalli Kunte 2

Kunte, a small pond, in Lakkenahalli village, Bengaluru North taluk

See it on the map
Size
1.27 acresSmaller than a football pitch
Rank by size
1352nd largestOf 1,621 lakes that still exist
Valley
Arkavathi
Who looks after it
ZPZilla Panchayat
Water quality
Not tested for water quality yet
Built over
0% of the lakeSatellite land cover, 2021

Through the years

Nothing on record for 1915 to 1925 and 1927 to 1983.

The records listed below, drawn on one line from 1914 to 2026.

  1. 1914

    Not on the survey map

    See source

  2. 1926

    Built

    As the 2018 lake survey records it

    See source

  3. 1984-2021

    Held water in 24 of 38 years

    Water in 5% of all satellite passes, 1984-2024

    0% of its water area has since gone dry; 14% is new water

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

    See sourceSee source

  4. 2017-2025

    Mostly built on or bare from 2018

    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

    Muddy, 0.33 acres surveyed

    See source

  6. 2025-2026

    Mostly open water 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

    • 54% open water
    • 4% floating weed
    • 42% 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
1.27 acres

Smaller than a football pitch

See source
2018 lake survey
0.33 acres

Smaller than a football pitch

See source
End to end
108 m

The longest straight line across the outline

See source
Deepest point, 2018
2 m
See source
Kind of lake
Kunte, a small pond
See source

How clean the water is

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

Agriculture runoff

See source

How much is built over

Built inside the outline
0%

From satellite land cover, 2021

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Land within 500 m

58% crops, 14% built, 14% shrubs, 7% trees, 7% grass

From satellite land cover, 2021

See source

Who looks after it

Looked after by
Zilla Panchayat

ZP

See source

Where its water comes from and goes

Valley
Arkavathi

The river basin its water drains to

See source
Water comes from
See source
Catchment
0.2 km²

The land that drains into it

See source
Built parts, 2018 survey

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

See source
Used for, 2018 survey

Cattle feeding

See source

What lives here

Animals seen, 2018 survey

Butterflies and birds

See source
Weed cover, 2018 survey

Partial

See source

Around it

Around it in 2018

Agriculture & layout

See source

Photos

No photos of it on Wikimedia Commons yet.

Where it is

Greater Bengaluru
Outside the city limits
See source
Village
Lakkenahalli

Dasanapura hobli, Bengaluru North taluk, Bengaluru Urban district

See source
Land survey numbers

10

See source
Height above sea level
859 m
See source
Coordinates

13.0224° N, 77.4570° E

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Read more

Its number in each record
ATREE lake map
1051
2018 lake survey
BUBNDPlkn_ku2-488
KGIS tank map
1190