Gundlupet

Gundlupet

Gundlupete
Gundlupet Gundlupete
town
	Manu BM
	Gundlupet Location in Karnataka, India
	Coordinates: 11°48′N 76°41′E / 11.8°N 76.68°E
Country	India
State	Karnataka
District	Chamarajanagar
Government
• Type	Gundlupet Town Municipal Council (TMC)
• Body	Municipality
Area
• Total	4.22 km2 (1.63 sq mi)
Elevation	816 m (2,677 ft)
Population (2018)
• Total	26,368
Languages
• Official	Kannada
Time zone	UTC+5:30 (IST)
PIN	571111
Telephone code	08229
Vehicle registration	KA-10
Website	www.gundlupettown.gov.in

Gundlupet or Gundlupete in Kannada is a town in the Chamarajanagar district of the Indian also called as Flower pot of Karnataka state of Karnataka. This small town is about 60 km from the Mysore-Ooty / Mysore-Calicut NH 766 highway and about 200 km from Bangalore, the state capital. Gundlupet is the last town in Karnataka en route to Ooty, Wayanad, Kozhikode, situated very close to Tamil Nadu and Kerala state borders. National Highway -181 ( NH-181 ) starts from Gundlupete and ends in Nagapattinam in Tamil Nadu via Ooty and Coimbatore.

The Bandipur National Park Forest Office is 17 km from Gundlupet. Previously this town was known as "Vijayapura" which got its name due presence of historical Vijayanarayana temple.

Geography

Gundlupet is located at 11°48′N 76°41′E / 11.8°N 76.68°E / 11.8; 76.68.^[1] It has an average elevation of 816 metres (2677 feet).

Demographics

Agriculture

Main crops are jowar, ragi, sugar cane, turmeric, onion and banana. It is a fairly dry region on the rain-shadow side of the Western Ghats with an average annual rainfall of about 600 mm (almost all of it falling during the monsoon months of July through October. The natural vegetation of the area is Dry Thorn Forest, as can be seen in the nearby reserve forests on the boundary of Bandipur National Park.