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Vani Vilasa Sagara, popularly known as Mari Kanive is a dam in Hiriyur Taluk, Chitradurga District, in the Indian state of Karnataka. [1] It is located about 20 km east of Hiriyur, 55 km south of Chitradurga, and 180 km north-west of Bengaluru. Vani Vilasa Sagara was built by the Mysore Maharajas pre-independence across the river Vedavathi.
129 km 2 (50 sq mi) Krishna Raja Sagara, also popularly known as KRS, is a lake and the dam that creates it. They are close to the settlement of Krishna Raja Sagara in the Indian State of Karnataka. The gravity dam made of surki mortar is below the confluence of river Kaveri with its tributaries Hemavati and Lakshmana Tirtha, in the district of ...
List of dams and reservoirs in Karnataka. 2 languages. ... Upper Tunga Dam Tunga: Gajanur, Shimoga: 3.24 588.24 17.5 791.39 22 Earth-fill, Gravity & Masonry dam: 13.389
127 MW. Website. www.tbboard.gov.in. The Tungabhadra Dam, also known as Pampa Sagar, is a water reservoir constructed across the Tungabhadra River in the Hosapete - Koppal confluence in Karnataka, India. It is a multipurpose dam serving irrigation, electricity generation, flood control, etc. for the state. It is India's largest stone masonry ...
The Back waters of Supa Dam. Supa Dam is built across Kalinadi (Kannada) or Kali river in state of Karnataka in India and is the tallest dam in Karnataka. The 101 meters high and 332 meters long dam has 3 gates of 15x10 meters. [1] The dam's gross capacity is 4.178 cubic km or 147 tmc ft. It is situated at GaneshaGudi, which is in Joida taluk ...
Kudremukha is the name of a mountain range and an individual mountain peak located in Chikmagalur district, in Karnataka, India. It is also the name of a small hill station and iron ore-mining town situated near the mountain, about 20 kilometres from Kalasa in Kalasa Taluk. The name Kuduremukha literally means "horse-faced" in Kannada and ...
Vedavathi River. Coordinates: 15.7222°N 76.9639°E. Vanivilas Dam across the river. The Vedavathi is a river in India. It originates from the Bababudanagiri Mountains of Western Ghats and flows through the states of Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh. The Vedavathi is also called the Hagari in Bellary District of Karnataka and parts of Andhra Pradesh.
The Mettur Dam is one of the largest dams in India and also the largest in Tamil Nadu, located across the river Kaveri where it enters the plains. Built in 1934, it took nine years to complete. [1] Maximum height and width of the dam are 214 and 171 feet, respectively. [2] The dam receives inflows from its own catchment area, Kabini Dam and ...