Lakes of Bendakaluru

Satellite view: Esri, Maxar, Earthstar Geographics

Hemigepura Kunte 3

Kunte, a small pond, in Talagattapura ward, Bengaluru South

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Size
0.60 acresSmaller than a football pitch
Rank by size
1475th largestOf 1,621 lakes that still exist
Valley
Vrishabhavathi
Who looks after it
BBMPBruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike
Water quality
Not tested for water quality yet
Built over
0% of the lakeSatellite land cover, 2021

Through the years

Nothing on record for 1904 to 1983.

The records listed below, drawn on one line from 1903 to 2026.

  1. 1903

    Built

    As the 2018 lake survey records it

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  2. 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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  3. 2017-2018

    In the water bodies census, not marked as encroached

    This census's status marks are often wrong

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  4. 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

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  5. 2018

    Still there in the 2018 lake survey

    Clean, 0.45 acres surveyed

    See source

  6. 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
    • 13% floating weed
    • 87% dry or built

    Dry season, Mar 2026 to May 2026

    • 0% open water
    • 4% floating weed
    • 96% dry or built
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How big it is

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

Drawn outline
0.60 acres

Smaller than a football pitch

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2018 lake survey
0.45 acres

Smaller than a football pitch

See source
End to end
68 m

The longest straight line across the outline

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Deepest point, 2018
1 m
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Kind of lake
Kunte, a small pond
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How clean the water is

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

Cattle wading

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How much is built over

Built inside the outline
0%

From satellite land cover, 2021

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Land within 500 m

39% shrubs, 27% built, 19% crops, 10% grass, 5% trees

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

Valley
Vrishabhavathi

The river basin its water drains to

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Catchment
0.2 km²

The land that drains into it

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Built parts, 2018 survey

2 inlet drains, no overflow weirs, no sluice gates, no culverts, no check dams and no islands

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What lives here

Photographed on iNaturalist
124 times

59 species, 45 confirmed by other naturalists.

Most seen: Common Paddy Field Frog, Parthenium beetle, Indian Black Ant, Chalky Percher and Euphranta crux.

Last seen Sep 2025

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Weed cover, 2018 survey

Partial

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Around it

Around it in 2018

Layout, temple & houses

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Photos

No photos of it on Wikimedia Commons yet.

Where it is

Ward 52
Talagattapura

ತಲಘಟ್ಟಪುರ

Bengaluru South corporation, Yeshwanthapura assembly seat

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Village
Hemmigepura (P2)

Kengeri hobli, Bengaluru South taluk, Bengaluru Urban district

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Land survey numbers

92

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Height above sea level
851 m
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Coordinates

12.8811° N, 77.5170° E

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Read more

OpenStreetMap
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Its number in each record
2018 lake survey
BUBSKGhmp_ku3-1197
Water bodies census
2/12/002/276600/1302870/008