Cauvery Basin

Cauvery Basin is a region in the south of Karnataka State.

Lakshmi Narayanaswamy temple at Harohalli riverside, Pandavapura

Districts

• Chamarajanagar
• Chikmagalur
• Hassan
• Kodagu
• Mandya
• Mysore

Cities

Agni Nethramba Temple, Thandavapura

Chinnada Gudi Hundi Temple, Nanjangud

• 1 Belur — the capital of the Hoysalla dynasty and Hale Belur the older capital

• 2 Chikmagalur — a city in Karnataka, known for its coffee plantations and Bababudan Giri ranges

• 3 Kushal Nagar — largest Coffee Processing/Exporting City in India

• 4 Hassan — a small town with notable architecture, greenery and Gorur Dam

• 5 Madikeri — a hill station and capital of Kodagu.

• 6 Mandya — an agricultural town and the headquarters of the Mandya district in Karnataka

• 7 Mysore — is officially known as Mysuru and is Karnataka's second biggest city in Southern India

• 8 Somwarpet — best quality Coffee Producing region in India

• 9 Srirangapatna — a town in the Mandya district of great religious, cultural and historic importance

Other destinations

• 1 Bandipur National Park — famous for its tiger and elephant reserve and protected sandalwood trees

• 2 Kabini — a reservoir situated between the Bandipur and Nagarhole National Park

• 3 Bylakupee — the largest Tibetan settlement outside of Tibet

• 4 Hebbe Falls — located in the middle of the Kodays coffee estate, near Kemmannagundi

• 5 Honnamana Kere — a Holy & Adventure spot

• 6 Kemmannagundi — a hill station

• 7 Kokkare Bellur (Kokkrebellur)— a village famous for its rare birds

• 8 Kudremukh National Park — undulating mountains and tropical wet evergreen forest

• 9 Ranganathittu Bird Sanctuary — near Srirangapatna it is the largest bird sanctuary in the state

• 10 Shravanabelagola — impressive Jain temple

Talk

Kannada is the most widely spoken language in the Cauvery Basin, and people in urban areas can also understand English and Hindi.