Lakes of Bendakaluru

Satellite view: Esri, Maxar, Earthstar Geographics

Varadanakere

Also called Hulimangala katte

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

See it on the map

Size

3.69 acresAbout 2.1 football pitches

Rank by size

1103rd largestOf 1,621 lakes that still exist

Valley

Dakshina Pinakini

Who looks after it

BDABangalore Development Authority

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.

No open water seen by satellite, 1984-2021

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
No open water seen in any year
Water in 2% of all satellite passes, 1984-2024
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
Mostly plants or weed in most years
Floating weed shows as crops or grass here, not as water
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
Muddy, 13.3 acres surveyed
See source
2025-2026
Mostly dry or built after the monsoon and in the dry season
After monsoon, Oct 2025 to Dec 2025
0% open water
0% floating weed
100% dry or built
Dry season, Mar 2026 to May 2026
0% open water
0% floating weed
100% dry or built
See source

How big it is

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

Drawn outline

3.69 acres

About 2.1 football pitches

2018 lake survey

13.3 acres

About 7.6 football pitches

End to end

233 m

The longest straight line across the outline

Deepest point, 2018

2 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

Muddy

Inlet and outlet tests, 2017-18

1 readings

Every reading

Show every reading

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		28.3	45	7.1	131	120	15	6.4	7	32	8.16	0.1	14	1,600

How much is built over

Built inside the outline

0%

From satellite land cover, 2021

Land record maps

Survey number 298, Hulimangala

Land within 500 m

44% crops, 18% grass, 13% trees, 13% shrubs, 11% built, 0.9% bare ground

From satellite land cover, 2021

Who looks after it

Looked after by

Bangalore Development Authority

BDA

Where its water comes from and goes

Valley

Dakshina Pinakini

The river basin its water drains to

Overflows into

Catchment

0.3 km²

The land that drains into it

Fed by, 2018 survey

Rainfall

Built parts, 2018 survey

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

Used for, 2018 survey

Cattle feeding

What lives here

Photographed on iNaturalist

3 times

3 species.

Most seen: coromandel boxwood, Myllocerus paetus and Ceylon Swamp Mallow.

Last seen Sep 2026

Animals seen, 2018 survey

Birds, butterflies and dragonflies

Water plants, 2018 survey

Emergent

Weed cover, 2018 survey

Partial

Around it

Around it in 2018

Vacant land, eucalyptus plantation

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

298

Height above sea level

930 m

Coordinates

12.8285° N, 77.6442° E

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Its number in each record

ATREE lake map: 226
2018 lake survey: BUAKJGhlm_kr2-1071
Lake Development Authority: LDA456
KGIS tank map: 1088
Water bodies census: 1/12/002/000001/000033/003