Bhavanisagar Dam — The Sathyamangalam Record

Basic Facts

Name (English)	Bhavanisagar Dam
Name (Tamil)	not documented
Historical spelling variants	no such field exists in the current schema — not just unpopulated, not modelled at all
Type	settlement
Coordinates	11.4700°N, 77.1100°E
Elevation	not documented — elevation is recorded for 0 of the 92 places in the atlas right now
Forest range / division	not applicable / not documented
Population	not documented
Tier	core

Linked Records

Claims about this place (1)

16 km west of town. Among the world's largest earthen dams; gives its name to a forest range. Backwaters are prime birding. — The Sathyamangalam Record - curated v2

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History & Legal Records Naming This Place

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Release of water from Bhavanisagar Dam (Reference document, 1990)
Desilting of Bhavanisagar Dam (Reference document, 1993)
Bhavanisagar Dam as Tourist Centre (Reference document, 1996)

Sources

The Sathyamangalam Record - curated v2 — CC BY-SA 4.0

Completeness

Completeness — 14% (place.v1)

Missing: elevation_m, population, forest_range, wikidata_id, name_ta, osm_id. Computed 2026-09-07T00:00:00Z; not yet human-verified — automatic score only.

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