Magadi

Magadi is a taluk head quarters situated in Ramanagara region. The town is arranged at a separation of 51kms from Bangalore City. The organizer of Bangalore, the immense Kempegowda was a local of Kempapura, Magadi taluk. Magadi, having a rich social legacy was the biggest limit Maha Gadi set apart amid the leaders of Vijayanagar realm. The town was before known by names Maha Gadi or Mahalakshmi Gadi, later the British administration renamed the town as Magadi.

The backwoods around Magadi were the setting of the genuine story "Old Munisamy and the Panther of Magadi" by the India conceived British seeker Kenneth Anderson. From that point forward, the natural life around Magadi has been incredibly decreased by poaching and territory misfortune. The ascent in land exercises and unlawful quarries working around Magadi is making colossal harm the biological system and the town is quick turning into a piece of the developing Bangalore locale.

The small town of Magadi is home to authentic sanctuaries of Shaiva and Vaishnava groups, Sri Ranganathswamy Temple is the primary fascination of the town. There are 5 Shiva sanctuaries situated around the town making this place as one of the Panchalinga Kshethras. The critical products of the taluk are ragi, paddy, groundnut, coconut, arecanut, maize and mulberry. Magadi taluk is thought to be the semiarid district with a normal yearly precipitation of 795 mm, which is chiefly contributed by south-west storm.