Lakes of Bendakaluru

Satellite view: Esri, Maxar, Earthstar Geographics

Hosa Bairohalli

Katte, a medium tank, in Kommaghatta village, Bengaluru South taluk

See it on the map
Size
1.61 acresSmaller than a football pitch
Rank by size
1303rd largestOf 1,621 lakes that still exist
Valley
Vrishabhavathi
Who looks after it
BDABangalore Development Authority
Water quality
Not tested for water quality yet
Built over
5% of the lakeSatellite land cover, 2021

Through the years

Nothing on record for 1904 to 1913 and 1915 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. 1914

    Not on the survey map

    See source

  3. 1984-2021

    No open water seen in any year

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

    See sourceSee source

  4. 2017-2025

    Mostly built on or bare from 2023

    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

    Clean, 1.45 acres surveyed

    See source

  6. 2025-2026

    Mostly floating weed 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

    • 0% open water
    • 83% floating weed
    • 17% dry or built

    Dry season, Mar 2026 to May 2026

    • 0% open water
    • 10% floating weed
    • 90% dry or built
    See source

How big it is

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

Drawn outline
1.61 acres

Smaller than a football pitch

See source
2018 lake survey
1.45 acres

Smaller than a football pitch

See source
End to end
108 m

The longest straight line across the outline

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Deepest point, 2018
1.5 m
See source
Kind of lake
Katte, a medium tank
See source

How clean the water is

State pollution board
Not tested by the state board
How it looked in 2018
Clean
See source

How much is built over

Built inside the outline
5%

From satellite land cover, 2021

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Dumped in it

Garbage & construction debris

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Land record maps
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Land within 500 m

23% crops, 21% trees, 21% grass, 20% built, 10% shrubs, 5% bare ground

From satellite land cover, 2021

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Who looks after it

Looked after by
Bangalore Development Authority

BDA

See source

Where its water comes from and goes

Valley
Vrishabhavathi

The river basin its water drains to

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Catchment
0.4 km²

The land that drains into it

See source
Built parts, 2018 survey

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

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Used for, 2018 survey

Cattle feeding

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Nearest sewage treatment plant

STP-4

901 m away

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What lives here

Animals seen, 2018 survey

Butterflies and dragonflies

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Water plants, 2018 survey

Emergent

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Weed cover, 2018 survey

Partial

See source

Around it

Around it in 2018

Temple, factory, houses & layout

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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
Kommaghatta

Kengeri hobli, Bengaluru South taluk, Bengaluru Urban district

See source
Land survey numbers

169

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Height above sea level
790 m
See source
Coordinates

12.9156° N, 77.4566° E

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Read more

OpenStreetMap
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Its number in each record
2018 lake survey
BUBSKGkom_gk4-1237
KGIS tank map
1229