Lakes of Bendakaluru

Satellite view: Esri, Maxar, Earthstar Geographics

Sompura Kunte 1

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

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Size
0.51 acresSmaller than a football pitch
Rank by size
1495th 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
23% of the lakeSatellite, 2021. The 2018 survey found 0.5% encroached.

Through the years

Nothing on record for 1905 to 1983.

The records listed below, drawn on one line from 1904 to 2026.

  1. 1904

    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. 2017-2025

    Mostly built on or bare from 2018

    About three in four of these readings are right, so trust what holds for several years

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  4. 2018

    Still there in the 2018 lake survey

    0.5% encroached, polluted, 0.93 acres surveyed

    See source

  5. 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
    • 60% floating weed
    • 40% dry or built

    Dry season, Mar 2026 to May 2026

    • 0% open water
    • 45% floating weed
    • 55% dry or built
    See source

How big it is

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

Drawn outline
0.51 acres

Smaller than a football pitch

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2018 lake survey
0.93 acres

Smaller than a football pitch

See source
End to end
86 m

The longest straight line across the outline

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Deepest point, 2018
1.5 m
See source
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
Polluted
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What pollutes it, 2018

Sewage & storm water mix

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Sewage flows in, 2018

From the south

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How much is built over

Built inside the outline
23%

From satellite land cover, 2021

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Encroached by

Farmers

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Taken for

Agriculture

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Where it is encroached

On the north side

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Land record maps
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Land within 500 m

45% shrubs, 22% built, 16% trees, 15% crops, 3% grass

From satellite land cover, 2021

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Who looks after it

Looked after by
Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike

BBMP

See source
City lake page

Open its page on the city’s lake monitoring site

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Where its water comes from and goes

Valley
Vrishabhavathi

The river basin its water drains to

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Overflows into

Somapura Kere

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Catchment
0.2 km²

The land that drains into it

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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

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Nearest sewage treatment plant

Hemmigepura 13 MLD Sewage Treatment Plant

2.1 km away, treats 13 million litres a day

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What lives here

Photographed on iNaturalist
1 times

1 species, 1 confirmed by other naturalists.

Most seen: Turkey Berry.

Last seen Jul 2023

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Animals seen, 2018 survey

Butterflies and dragonflies

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Water plants, 2018 survey

Emergent

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Weed cover, 2018 survey

Complete

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Around it

Around it in 2018

Settlement, layout

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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
Sompura

Kengeri hobli, Bengaluru South taluk, Bengaluru Urban district

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Land survey numbers

27/53

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Height above sea level
822 m
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Coordinates

12.8831° N, 77.5022° E

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Its number in each record
2018 lake survey
BUBSKGsmp_ku1-1296
City lake monitoring site
128