Lakes of Bendakaluru

Satellite view: Esri, Maxar, Earthstar Geographics

Jogi Kere

ಜೋಗಿ ಕೆರೆ

Also called Jogi Lake

Kere, a large tank, in Talagattapura ward, Bengaluru South

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Size
1.33 acresSmaller than a football pitch
Rank by size
1345th largestOf 1,621 lakes that still exist
Valley
Suvarnamukhi
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.
Campaign
Residents are organising here

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

    Held water in 5 of 38 years

    Water in 2% of all satellite passes, 1984-2024

    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

    See source

  5. 2018

    Still there in the 2018 lake survey

    2% encroached, polluted, 3.05 acres surveyed

    See source

  6. 2025-2026

    Part floating weed, part open water after the monsoon; part open water, part 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

    • 31% open water
    • 47% floating weed
    • 22% dry or built

    Dry season, Mar 2026 to May 2026

    • 43% open water
    • 20% floating weed
    • 37% dry or built
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How big it is

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

Drawn outline
1.33 acres

Smaller than a football pitch

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Land records
2.67 acres

About 1.5 football pitches

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2018 lake survey
3.05 acres

About 1.7 football pitches

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End to end
107 m

The longest straight line across the outline

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Deepest point, 2018
1.5 m
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Kind of lake
Kere, a large tank
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How clean the water is

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

Sewage

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Sewage flows in, 2018

From the east

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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°CLight transparencycmpHConductivityµS/cmDissolved solidsmg/LSuspended solidsmg/LTurbidityNTUDissolved oxygenmg/LCODmg/LBODmg/LTotal phosphateKjeldahl nitrogenmg/L as NTotal coliformMPN/100mL
2018-02-0627.698.47324762655.211.57321.660.62134
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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
0.16 acres

Reported by the state legislature’s committee on lake encroachment

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Encroached by

Government agencies and private owners

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Taken for

Road & layout

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Where it is encroached

On the east and south-west side

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Land record maps
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Land within 500 m

63% built, 14% crops, 9% trees, 9% shrubs, 4% grass, 2% bare ground

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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City work on the lake
Developed
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City zone
Rajarajeshwari Nagar
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City lake page

Open its page on the city’s lake monitoring site

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Campaign pages
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Where its water comes from and goes

Valley
Suvarnamukhi

The river basin its water drains to

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Overflows into

O.B.Chudanahalli Lake

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Catchment
0.3 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

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Used for, 2018 survey

Cattle feeding and fishing

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What lives here

Birds recorded
100 species

Most seen: Little Grebe, Indian Pond-Heron, White-throated Kingfisher, Green Bee-eater and Ashy Prinia.

1,651 sightings, mostly from birdwatchers

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All wildlife recorded
129 species

1,684 records, 2020 to 2025

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Photographed on iNaturalist
184 times

74 species, 93 confirmed by other naturalists.

Most seen: Plain Tiger Butterfly, Common Bluetail, Red Dwarf Honey Bee, Little Cormorant and Common Kingfisher.

Last seen May 2026

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Animals seen, 2018 survey

Birds, butterflies and dragonflies

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Water plants, 2018 survey

Emergent and rooted floating

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Weed cover, 2018 survey

Complete

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Around it

Around it in 2018

Apartment, vacant land & park

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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
Mallasandra

Uttarahalli hobli, Bengaluru South taluk, Bengaluru Urban district

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Land survey numbers

30

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Height above sea level
876 m
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Coordinates

12.8629° N, 77.5385° E

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Read more

OpenStreetMap
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Its number in each record
ATREE lake map
0
2018 lake survey
BUBSUHmls_kr3-1355
Lake Development Authority
LDA238
Water bodies census
2/12/002/276600/1302870/010
City lake monitoring site
123