Lakes of Bendakaluru

Satellite view: Esri, Maxar, Earthstar Geographics

Vajarahalli Govt.Katte

Also called Muniyappana katte, Govt. Karabu kunte, Baiyannakunte Lake

Katte, a medium tank, in Talagattapura ward, Bengaluru South

See it on the map
Size
1.52 acresSmaller than a football pitch
Rank by size
1322nd 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
14% of the lakeSatellite, 2021. The 2018 survey found 2% encroached.

Through the years

Nothing on record for 1891 to 1983.

The records listed below, drawn on one line from 1890 to 2026.

  1. 1890

    Built

    As the 2018 lake survey records it

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  2. 1984-2021

    Held water in 16 of 38 years

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

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

    See sourceSee source

  3. 2017-2018

    In the water bodies census, not marked as encroached

    This census's status marks are often wrong

    See source

  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, 2.77 acres surveyed

    See source

  6. 2025-2026

    Mostly dry or built after the monsoon and 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
    • 19% floating weed
    • 81% dry or built

    Dry season, Mar 2026 to May 2026

    • 0% open water
    • 7% floating weed
    • 94% dry or built
    See source

How big it is

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

Drawn outline
1.52 acres

Smaller than a football pitch

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Land records
2.77 acres

About 1.6 football pitches

See source
2018 lake survey
2.77 acres

About 1.6 football pitches

See source
End to end
114 m

The longest straight line across the outline

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Deepest point, 2018
2 m
See source
Kind of lake
Katte, a medium 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
See source
What pollutes it, 2018

Sewage

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Sewage flows in, 2018

From the east

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How much is built over

Built inside the outline
14%

From satellite land cover, 2021

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Encroached area, 2017
0.34 acres

Reported by the state legislature’s committee on lake encroachment

See source
Encroached by

Private owners and government agencies

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Taken for

Coconut plantation & road

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Where it is encroached

On the north and west side

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Dumped in it

Garbage waste

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Land record maps
See source
Land within 500 m

45% trees, 34% built, 12% shrubs, 7% crops, 2% 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 work on the lake
Developed
See source
City zone
Rajarajeshwari Nagar
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
Suvarnamukhi

The river basin its water drains to

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Overflows into

O.B.Chudanahalli Lake

See source
Catchment
0.3 km²

The land that drains into it

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Built parts, 2018 survey

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

See source
Used for, 2018 survey

Cattle feeding and fishing

See source

What lives here

Birds recorded
26 species

Most seen: Indian Pond-Heron, Red-wattled Lapwing, Spot-billed duck, White-throated Kingfisher and Gray Wagtail.

92 sightings, mostly from birdwatchers

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All wildlife recorded
26 species

92 records, 2019 to 2024

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Photographed on iNaturalist
2 times

Last seen May 2026

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Animals seen, 2018 survey

Birds

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Water plants, 2018 survey

Emergent and rooted floating

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Weed cover, 2018 survey

Complete

See source

Around it

Around it in 2018

Vacant land, settlement & planatation

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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
Vajarahalli

Uttarahalli hobli, Bengaluru South taluk, Bengaluru Urban district

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Land survey numbers

36

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Height above sea level
877 m
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Coordinates

12.8683° N, 77.5438° E

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Read more

OpenStreetMap
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Its number in each record
ATREE lake map
15
2018 lake survey
BUBSUHvjr_gk3-1382
Lake Development Authority
LDA368
Water bodies census
2/12/002/276600/1302870/009
City lake monitoring site
118