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Rachenahalli Lake

lake in Bangalore, Karnataka

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 29, 2026
Entity authorityQ107645662 ↗
Source-derived summary

Rachenahalli Lake is a lake in Bangalore, India. It is located in Thanisandra in North Bangalore. It is about 1.4km from Amruthahalli police station.

The 104-acre lake was a lifeline to many agricultural activities and livestock in the surrounding villages till the turn of the century. However, development activities including concrete constructions have disrupted the natural flow of water and during heavy rains it overflows. The upstream lakes of Rachenahalli lake include, Jakkur lake and the Sampigehalli lake while the downstream lakes are Nagavara lake and Kalkere lake.

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Journals

Ramachandra, T. V.; Rajinikanth, R.; Ranjini, V. G. (2003–2005). "Economic Valuation of Wetlands". Journal of Environmental Biology. 26 (3): 439–447 – via Centre for Ecological Sciences.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Rachenahalli Lake” as lake in Bangalore, Karnataka. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Rachenahalli, Lake and lake.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2003, 2005—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Rachenahalli, Lake and lake providing the first useful test.
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Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 29, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q107645662. Authority coordinates are 13.063, 77.612. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2003 and 2005.

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This entry incorporates text from “Rachenahalli Lake” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.