Lakes of Bendakaluru

Satellite view: Esri, Maxar, Earthstar Geographics

Yarappanahalli Kere

Also called Yarappanahalli Kere1

Kere, a large tank, in Yarappanahalli village, Bengaluru East taluk

See it on the map

Size

1.49 acresSmaller than a football pitch

Rank by size

1326th largestOf 1,621 lakes that still exist

Valley

Dakshina Pinakini

Who looks after it

MIMinor Irrigation Department

Water quality

Not tested for water quality yet

Built over

7% of the lakeSatellite land cover, 2021

Through the years

Nothing on record for 1922 to 1926 and 1928 to 1983.

Water seen by satellite each year, up to 0.74 acres. Grey: years it saw under half the lake

What covers it each year:waterbuilt on or bareplants or weed

1921

1927

1984

1921
Built
As the 2018 lake survey records it
See source
1927
Not on the survey map
See source
1984-2021
Held water every year
Water in 26% of all satellite passes, 1984-2024
4 years not counted: the satellite saw under half the lake
The lake is small for this record, so treat it as rough
See source See source
2017-2025
Mostly built on or bare from 2021
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, 16.9 acres surveyed
See source
2025-2026
Mostly open water 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
96% open water
0% floating weed
4% 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

1.49 acres

Smaller than a football pitch

2018 lake survey

16.9 acres

About 9.6 football pitches

End to end

127 m

The longest straight line across the outline

Deepest point, 2018

3 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

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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
2017-11-28		25.6	13	7.8	374	318	29	92.4	3.8	16	3.8	0.1	5	34

How much is built over

Built inside the outline

7%

From satellite land cover, 2021

Encroached area, 2017

1.80 acres

Reported by the state legislature’s committee on lake encroachment

Dumped in it

Construction debris & agriculture waste

Land record maps

Survey number 2, Yarappanahalli

Land within 500 m

41% crops, 28% built, 14% grass, 11% shrubs, 3% trees, 3% bare ground

From satellite land cover, 2021

Who looks after it

Looked after by

Minor Irrigation Department

MI

Where its water comes from and goes

Valley

Dakshina Pinakini

The river basin its water drains to

Overflows into

Hosakote Doddaamanikere

Catchment

0 km²

The land that drains into it

Fed by, 2018 survey

Rain & drin fed

Built parts, 2018 survey

2 inlet drains, 1 overflow weir and 2 culverts

Used for, 2018 survey

Irrigation and cattle feeding

What lives here

Animals seen, 2018 survey

Birds, butterflies and dragonflies

Water plants, 2018 survey

Emergent

Around it

Around it in 2018

Agriculture, plantation & temple

Photos

No photos of it on Wikimedia Commons yet.

Where it is

Greater Bengaluru

Outside the city limits

Village

Yarappanahalli

Bidarahalli hobli, Bengaluru East taluk, Bengaluru Urban district

Land survey numbers

2

Height above sea level

905 m

Coordinates

13.0843° N, 77.7370° E

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OpenStreetMap

Open it on OpenStreetMap

Its number in each record

ATREE lake map: 238
2018 lake survey: BUBEBDyrp_kr1-911
Lake Development Authority: LDA468
KGIS tank map: 531