Lakes of Bendakaluru

Satellite view: Esri, Maxar, Earthstar Geographics

Varthuru Kunte1

Kunte, a small pond, in Varthur ward, Bengaluru East

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Size
0.04 acresSmaller than a football pitch
Rank by size
1620th largestOf 1,621 lakes that still exist
Valley
No valley on record
Who looks after it
BBMPBruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike
Water quality
Not tested for water quality yet
Built over
13% of the lakeSatellite land cover, 2021

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

    No open water seen in any year

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

    See sourceSee source

  3. 2017-2025

    Mostly built on or bare every year

    The lake is known only as a point or is under a quarter acre, so the shares are rough

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

    See source

  4. 2018

    Still there in the 2018 lake survey

    Clean, 0.17 acres surveyed

    See source

  5. 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
    • 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
0.04 acres

Smaller than a football pitch

See source
2018 lake survey
0.17 acres

Smaller than a football pitch

See source
End to end
19 m

The longest straight line across the outline

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Deepest point, 2018
2 m
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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
Clean
See source

How much is built over

Built inside the outline
13%

From satellite land cover, 2021

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Dumped in it

Garbage

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Land within 500 m

75% built, 14% trees, 8% crops, 1% shrubs, 1% grass, 1% bare ground

From satellite land cover, 2021

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Who looks after it

Looked after by
Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike

BBMP

See source

Where its water comes from and goes

Built parts, 2018 survey

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

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What lives here

Photographed on iNaturalist
1 times

Last seen Jun 2025

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Animals seen, 2018 survey

Butterflies

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Water plants, 2018 survey

Emergent

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Weed cover, 2018 survey

Partial

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Around it

Around it in 2018

Houses, temple & agriculture land

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Photos

No photos of it on Wikimedia Commons yet.

Where it is

Ward 40
Varthur

ವರ್ತೂರು

Bengaluru East corporation, Mahadevapura assembly seat

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Village
Varthur

Varthuru hobli, Bengaluru East taluk, Bengaluru Urban district

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Land survey numbers

69

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Height above sea level
869 m
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Coordinates

12.9424° N, 77.7493° E

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Read more

OpenStreetMap
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Its number in each record
2018 lake survey
BUBEVRvrt_ku1-642