Lakes of Bendakaluru

Satellite view: Esri, Maxar, Earthstar Geographics

Hongekere

Also called Govt. Kharabu Kattehonge kere, Chittekarepalya Lake

Kere, a large tank, in Hullahalli village, Anekal taluk

See it on the map
Size
2.32 acresAbout 1.3 football pitches
Rank by size
1232nd largestOf 1,621 lakes that still exist
Valley
Dakshina Pinakini
Who looks after it
BDABangalore Development Authority
Water quality
Not tested for water quality yet
Built over
0% of the lakeSatellite, 2021. The 2018 survey found 10% encroached.

Through the years

Nothing on record for 1958 to 1979 and 1981 to 1983.

The records listed below, drawn on one line from 1957 to 2026.

  1. 1957

    Built

    As the 2018 lake survey records it

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  2. 1980

    Not on the survey map

    See source

  3. 1984-2021

    Held water in 21 of 38 years

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

    17% of its water area has since gone dry; 8% is new water

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

    See sourceSee source

  4. 2017-2025

    No one cover holds over half of it in most years

    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

    10% encroached, clean, 4.10 acres surveyed

    See source

  6. 2025-2026

    Mostly open water after the monsoon; mostly floating weed in the dry season

    The lake is small for these images, so treat the shares as rough

    After monsoon, Oct 2025 to Dec 2025

    • 63% open water
    • 34% floating weed
    • 3% dry or built

    Dry season, Mar 2026 to May 2026

    • 0% open water
    • 77% floating weed
    • 23% dry or built
    See source

How big it is

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

Drawn outline
2.32 acres

About 1.3 football pitches

See source
2018 lake survey
4.10 acres

About 2.3 football pitches

See source
End to end
196 m

The longest straight line across the outline

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Deepest point, 2018
3 m
See source
Kind of lake
Kere, a large tank
See source

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

Agriculture runoff

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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°CpHConductivityµS/cmDissolved solidsmg/LSuspended solidsmg/LTurbidityNTUDissolved oxygenmg/LCODmg/LBODmg/LTotal phosphateKjeldahl nitrogenmg/L as NTotal coliformMPN/100mL
2017-12-06297.1345270206.72.8167.590.228170
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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
1.05 acres

Reported by the state legislature’s committee on lake encroachment

See source
Encroached by

The public

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Taken for

Vacant land

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Where it is encroached

On the north-west and ws side

See source
Dumped in it

Construction debris

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Land record maps
See source
Land within 500 m

32% built, 23% trees, 22% crops, 16% grass, 5% shrubs, 1% water, 0.7% bare ground

From satellite land cover, 2021

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Who looks after it

Looked after by
Bangalore Development Authority

BDA

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Where its water comes from and goes

Valley
Dakshina Pinakini

The river basin its water drains to

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Water comes from
See source
Overflows into

Bhujangadasana Amanikere Govt Lake

See source
Catchment
1.2 km²

The land that drains into it

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Fed by, 2018 survey

Rainfall

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Built parts, 2018 survey

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

See source
Used for, 2018 survey

Irrigation

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Nearest sewage treatment plant

STP

2.1 km away

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What lives here

Animals seen, 2018 survey

Birds

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Water plants, 2018 survey

Emergent and free floating

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Weed cover, 2018 survey

Partial

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Around it

Around it in 2018

Layout, agriculture, plantation & vacant land

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Photos

No photos of it on Wikimedia Commons yet.

Where it is

Greater Bengaluru
Outside the city limits
See source
Village
Hullahalli

Jigani hobli, Anekal taluk, Bengaluru Urban district

See source
Land survey numbers

223

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Height above sea level
917 m
See source
Coordinates

12.8322° N, 77.6122° E

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Read more

OpenStreetMap
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Its number in each record
ATREE lake map
229
2018 lake survey
BUAKJGhul_kr6-1085
Lake Development Authority
LDA165
KGIS tank map
1013