Velachery Lake
Velachery Aeri, or Velachery Lake, is one of the lakes inside Chennai, in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, with a good stock of water all through the year.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Guindy National Park and Guindy.
Guindy National Park
Forest
Guindy National Park is a protected area, located in Chennai, India. Spread across 2.70 km2, it is one of the smallest National Parks in India and one of the few national parks situated inside a metropolitan area.
Guindy
Railway station
Photo: Ganeshk, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Guindy railway station is one of the railway stations of the Chennai Beach–Chengalpattu section of the Chennai Suburban Railway Network. It serves the neighbourhood of Guindy, a suburb of Chennai.
St. Thomas Mount railway station
Railway station
Photo: Sameer2905, CC BY-SA 4.0.
St. Thomas Mount railway station, locally known as Mount railway station or Parangimalai station, is one of the railway stations of the Chennai Beach–Chengalpattu section of the Chennai Suburban Railway Network.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include South Chennai and Velachery.
South Chennai
Photo: PlaneMad, CC BY-SA 2.5.
South Chennai encompasses the southern neighbourhoods of Chennai in India. Located roughly to the south of the Adyar River, these areas were incorporated into the Greater Chennai Corporation after the 1990s.
Velachery
Suburb
Photo: Simply CVR, CC BY 2.0.
Velachery is a neighbourhood of Chennai. It is located in the southern part of the Chennai city sharing borders with Guindy in the north, Taramani in the east, Perungudi in the south-east, Pallikaranai in the south, Madipakkam in south-west, Adambakkam in the west and north-west.
Perungudi
Suburb
Perungudi is a neighbourhood of Chennai in the state of Tamil Nadu, India. It is situated about 10 kilometres south of Adyar. It is bordered on two sides by the Old Mahabalipuram Road and the Perungudi lake.
Velachery Lake
- Type: Lake (intermittent)
- Description: lake in India
- Category: body of water
- Location: Pallavaram, Chengalpattu district, Tamil Nadu, Southern India, India, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
12.9882° or 12° 59′ 18″ northLongitude
80.2115° or 80° 12′ 41″ eastOpen location code
7M42X6Q6+7JOpenStreetMap ID
way 25504265OpenStreetMap feature
natural=waterOpenStreetMap feature
water=lakeOpenStreetMap attribute
intermittent=yesWikidata ID
Q7352533
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Panjabi to Tamil—“Velachery Lake” goes by many names.
- Panjabi: “ਵੇਲਾਚੇਰੀ ਝੀਲ”
- Tamil: “வேளச்சேரி ஏரி”
Places with the Same Name
Discover other places named “Velachery Lake”.
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as CMWSSB Division 177 and Lakshmi Hayagriva Nagar.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include District Branch Library, Velachery and BSNL Exchange.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Velachery Lake”. Photo: Inkey, CC BY-SA 3.0.