Lakes of Bendakaluru

Satellite view: Esri, Maxar, Earthstar Geographics

Handrahalli Kere

Also called Lingadheeranahalli Lake

Kere, a large tank, in Andrahalli ward, Bengaluru West

See it on the map

Size

3.63 acresAbout 2.1 football pitches

Rank by size

1105th largestOf 1,621 lakes that still exist

Valley

Arkavathi

Who looks after it

BBMPBruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike

Water quality

Not tested for water quality yet

Built over

0% of the lakeSatellite, 2021. The 2018 survey found 2% encroached.

Through the years

Nothing on record for 1915 to 1957, 1959 to 1973 and 1975 to 1983.

Water seen by satellite each year, up to 2.22 acres. Grey: years it saw under half the lake

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

1914

1958

1974

1984

1914
Not on the survey map
See source
1958
Built
As the 2018 lake survey records it
See source
1974
Not on the survey map
See source
1984-2021
Held water most years
Water in 10% of all satellite passes, 1984-2024
0% of its water area has since gone dry; 32% 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
See source See source
2012
Restored
See source
2017-2025
Mostly built on or bare in most years
About three in four of these readings are right, so trust what holds for several years
See source
2018
Still there in the 2018 lake survey
2% encroached, clean, 5.80 acres surveyed
See source
2025-2026
Part dry or built, part floating weed after the monsoon; mostly dry or built in the dry season
After monsoon, Oct 2025 to Dec 2025
26% open water
29% floating weed
45% 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

3.63 acres

About 2.1 football pitches

Land records

5.75 acres

About 3.3 football pitches

2018 lake survey

5.80 acres

About 3.3 football pitches

End to end

158 m

The longest straight line across the outline

Deepest point, 2018

3 m

Kind of lake

Kere, a large tank

How clean the water is

State pollution board

Not tested by the state board

How it looked in 2018

Clean

How much is built over

Built inside the outline

0%

From satellite land cover, 2021

Encroached area, 2017

0.45 acres

Reported by the state legislature’s committee on lake encroachment

Encroached by

The public

Taken for

Graveyard

Where it is encroached

On the north side

Other problems noted

Park & Grave yard

Land within 500 m

78% built, 9% trees, 9% crops, 2% grass, 1% shrubs

From satellite land cover, 2021

Who looks after it

Looked after by

Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike

BBMP

City work on the lake

Developed

City zone

Rajarajeshwari Nagar

City lake page

Open its page on the city’s lake monitoring site

Where its water comes from and goes

Valley

Arkavathi

The river basin its water drains to

Water comes from

Lingadheeranahalli Karabu Katte

Overflows into

Kachohalli Kere

Catchment

0.6 km²

The land that drains into it

Fed by, 2018 survey

Rain & drain fed

Built parts, 2018 survey

2 inlet drains, 1 overflow weir, 1 sluice gate, 2 culverts, no check dams and no islands

Used for, 2018 survey

Park maintenance

What lives here

Animals seen, 2018 survey

Birds, butterflies and dragonflies

Weed cover, 2018 survey

Partial

Around it

Around it in 2018

Settlement, P & acharya school

Photos

No photos of it on Wikimedia Commons yet.

Where it is

Ward 12

Andrahalli

ಅಂದ್ರಹಳ್ಳಿ

Bengaluru West corporation, Yeshwanthapura assembly seat

Village

Lingadeeranahalli

Yeshwanthpura hobli, Bengaluru North taluk, Bengaluru Urban district

Land survey numbers

2

Height above sea level

893 m

Coordinates

13.0036° N, 77.4826° E

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OpenStreetMap

Open it on OpenStreetMap

Its number in each record

ATREE lake map: 256
2018 lake survey: BUBNYPlgd_kr3-169
Lake Development Authority: LDA333
KGIS tank map: 1202
City lake monitoring site: 126