Hebbal Lake — Attraction in Bengaluru

Hebbal Lake is located in the north of Bangalore at the mouth of National Highway 7, along the junction of Bellary Road and the Outer Ring Road (ORR). It was one of the three lakes created in 1537 by Kempe Gowda. Like most lakes or "tanks" in the Bangalore region it was formed by the damming natural valley systems by the construction of bunds. The spread of the lake in a study in 2000 was found to be 75 ha with plans for extending it to make up 143 ha. The lake is predominantly eutrophic due to the inflow of sewage. The nutrients support the profuse growth of water hyacinth and Typha in the shallow zone. The habitat is favoured by many species of water birds including large waterbirds such as the spot-billed pelican, Eurasian spoonbill, shoveller, pintail, garganey, little grebe, coot and Indian spot-billed duck. The shallow zone supports sandpipers and other waders as well as purple moorhens, purple...

It is one of the three lakes created in 1537 by Kempe Gowda. Like most lakes or “tanks” in the Bengaluru region it was formed by the damming natural valley systems by the construction of bunds.

The word Hebbal is believed to be derived from the beautiful Hebba Lake which lies to the north. On the other hand when analyzed, the name Hebba-halla in Kannada, Hebba means big or large and word Halla for deep. It gives the meaning of Hebbala Kere or literally translated as a large deep lake.

Created in the 16th century to function as a reservoir, the lake’s extent is 150 acres. It has since sustained scores of local and...

Me and my friend (girl) went there in morning 7 to see sunrise as it was mentioned as one of the best place to see sunrise in bangalore. But the security guard said couples are not allowed so we can’t enter. This is happening on 02/04/2022 . We tried our maximum to convince him that we’re not couples, and he didn’t let us in. Just wanted to know that if this park is a public property or of this security guard? If its publics i would ask the responsible persons to take action on this. If not no problem we would think like we don’t have freedom to even visit a park in this...