Gundlupet is a town in Chamarajanagar district

Chamarajanagar district

Chamarajanagara is the southern-most district in the state of Karnataka, India. It was carved out of the original larger Mysore District in the year 1998...

 in the India

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n state

States and territories of India

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 of Karnataka

Karnataka

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. This small town

Town

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 is about 56 km from the Mysore-Ooty / Mysore-Calicut (NH 212) road and about 200 km from Bangalore

Bangalore

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. Gundlupet is the last town in Karnataka en route to Ooty or Kozhikode

Kozhikode

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The Bandipur National Park

Bandipur National Park

Bandipur National Park is one of India's best known protected areas and is an important Project Tiger reserve. It is located in the Chamarajanagar district of southern Karnataka in South India,...

 Forest Office is 16 km from Gundlupet.

Geography

Gundlupet is located at 11.8°N 76.68°E. It has an average elevation of 816 metres (2677 feet).

Demographics

India census

Census

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, Gundlupet had a population of 26,368. Males constitute 51% of the population and females 49%. Gundlupet has an average literacy rate of 63%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 71%, and female literacy is 56%. In Gundlupet, 11% of the population is under 6 years of age.

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

Western Ghats

The Western Ghats, Western Ghauts or the Sahyādri is a mountain range along the western side of India. It runs north to south along the western edge of the Deccan Plateau, and separates the plateau from a narrow coastal plain along the Arabian Sea. The Western Ghats block rainfall to the Deccan...

 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

Bandipur National Park

Bandipur National Park is one of India's best known protected areas and is an important Project Tiger reserve. It is located in the Chamarajanagar district of southern Karnataka in South India,...

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