Lakes of Bendakaluru

Satellite view: Esri, Maxar, Earthstar Geographics

Hulimangala Govt. Kodi Kere

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

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Size

2.73 acresAbout 1.5 football pitches

Rank by size

1190th largestOf 1,621 lakes that still exist

Valley

Dakshina Pinakini

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 1924 to 1979 and 1981 to 1983.

Water seen by satellite each year, up to 0.37 acres

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

1923

1980

1984

1923
Built
As the 2018 lake survey records it
See source
1980
Not on the survey map
See source
1984-2021
Held water in 23 of 38 years
Water in 4% of all satellite passes, 1984-2024
0% of its water area has since gone dry; 13% is new water
See source See source
2017-2018
In the water bodies census, not marked as encroached
This census's status marks are often wrong
See source
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
2018
Still there in the 2018 lake survey
Clean, 3.70 acres surveyed
See source
2025-2026
Mostly open water after the monsoon; mostly dry or built in the dry season
After monsoon, Oct 2025 to Dec 2025
79% open water
5% floating weed
16% dry or built
Dry season, Mar 2026 to May 2026
0% open water
16% floating weed
84% dry or built
See source

How big it is

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

Drawn outline

2.73 acres

About 1.5 football pitches

2018 lake survey

3.70 acres

About 2.1 football pitches

End to end

201 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

Inlet and outlet tests, 2017-18

1 readings

Every reading

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Inlet and outlet tests, 2017-18 lake survey

Date	Where	Water temperature°C	Light transparencycm	pH	ConductivityµS/cm	Dissolved solidsmg/L	Suspended solidsmg/L	TurbidityNTU	Dissolved oxygenmg/L	CODmg/L	BODmg/L	Total phosphate	Kjeldahl nitrogenmg/L as N	Total coliformMPN/100mL
2017-12-06		27.4	8	6.3	111	96	11	40.7	6.2	32	4.08	0.2	28	240

How much is built over

Built inside the outline

0%

From satellite land cover, 2021

Encroached area, 2017

0.03 acres

Reported by the state legislature’s committee on lake encroachment

Land record maps

Survey number 248, Hulimangala

Land within 500 m

49% crops, 19% grass, 13% built, 10% shrubs, 6% trees, 3% bare ground

From satellite land cover, 2021

Who looks after it

Looked after by

Zilla Panchayat

ZP

Where its water comes from and goes

Valley

Dakshina Pinakini

The river basin its water drains to

Overflows into

Catchment

0.5 km²

The land that drains into it

Fed by, 2018 survey

Rainfall

Built parts, 2018 survey

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

Used for, 2018 survey

Swimming and cattle feeding

What lives here

Animals seen, 2018 survey

Birds and butterflies

Water plants, 2018 survey

Emergent and rooted floating

Weed cover, 2018 survey

Partial

Around it

Around it in 2018

Plantation, vacant land & temple

Photos

No photos of it on Wikimedia Commons yet.

Where it is

Greater Bengaluru

Outside the city limits

Village

Hulimangala

Jigani hobli, Anekal taluk, Bengaluru Urban district

Land survey numbers

248

Height above sea level

926 m

Coordinates

12.8235° N, 77.6452° E

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OpenStreetMap

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Its number in each record

ATREE lake map: 225
2018 lake survey: BUAKJGhlm_kr4-1073
Lake Development Authority: LDA217
KGIS tank map: 1086
Water bodies census: 1/12/002/000001/000033/001