Ramanagara district, is one of the 31

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Karnataka Karnataka (; ISO 15919, ISO: , , also known as Karunāḍu) is a States and union territories of India, state in the southwestern region of India. It was Unification of Karnataka, formed on 1 November 1956, with the passage of the States Reor ...

state in southern

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Ramanagara Ramanagara is a city in the Indian state of Karnataka. It is also the headquarters of Ramanagara district. It is approximately 50 kilometres from Bangalore. There are buses and trains as public transportations which approximately takes 90 minu ...

City is the administrative headquarters of this district. The district is part of

Bengaluru Division Bengaluru division is one of the four divisions of the Indian state Karnataka. The division comprises the districts of Bangalore Urban, Bangalore Rural, Chikkaballapur, Chitradurga, Davanagere, Kolar, Ramanagara, Shivamogga, and Tumakuru.The to ...

History

Ramanagara district was carved out of the erstwhile Bengaluru Rural district on 23 August 2007, comprising

Channapatna Channapatana is a city and taluk headquarters in Ramanagara District, Karnataka, India. Channapatna is approximately 60kms from Bangalore and 80kms from Mysore. Geography Channapatna has an average elevation of 739 metres (2424 ft) ...

, Harohalli, Kanakapura and Magadi taluks.

Geography

Ramanagara is approximately 50 km southwest of

Bengaluru Bangalore (), officially Bengaluru (), is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Karnataka. It has a population of more than and a metropolitan population of around , making it the third most populous city and fifth most ...

. The district shares borders with the districts of Bangalore Urban in the east, Bangalore Rural in the North-east,

Tumkur Tumkur, officially renamed as Tumakuru, is a city located in the southern part of Indian state of Karnataka. Tumkur is situated at a distance of northwest of Bangalore, the state capital along NH 48 and NH 73. It is the headquarters of the ...

in the North-west,

Mandya Mandya is a city in the state of Karnataka. It is the headquarter of Mandya district and is located from Mysore and from Bangalore. Sugar factories contribute to the major economic output. It is also called Sugar city (which in Kannada mea ...

in the west and

Chamarajanagar Chamarajanagar or Chamarajanagara is a town in the southern part of Karnataka, India. Named after Chamaraja Wodeyar IX, the erstwhile king of Mysore, previously known as 'Arikottara'. Chamarajanagara is the headquarters of Chamarajanagar dist ...

in the south-west and Krishnagiri district of Tamilnadu state in the south. It has an average elevation of 747 metres (2450 feet). Ramanagara is famous for the huge rocky outcroppings. The popular places for rock climbing are; Savandurga which is 31km away from

, Ramadevarabetta located within the city, Sri Revana Siddeshwara (SRS) betta which is 15.1km away from

, Thenginkalbetta near to SRS betta and Kabbaladurga which is 35km away from

This region has several tall granitic hills which are famous for many short rock climbs, typically 1 to 2 pitches in length. Grades vary from 5.8 American to 5.11 American. It is home to some of the world's oldest

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outcrops. Some of the interesting climbs are on the ''Wanakkal wall'' ("Gabbar ki asli pasand", "Labor pain"), on the ''Rainbow wall'' ("UIAA", "Kalia"), on ''Anna-Thamma'' ("Darkness at dawn", "Black Diamond", the name ''Anna-Thama'' means 'elder-brother-younger-brother' in

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). Another well-known hill is ''Ramadevarabetta''. Along with Savandurga this was one of the shooting locations for

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's '' A Passage to India''. Small door like grottoes was made in the rock to resemble caves. It was also in this region that the path-breaking Hindi movie, Sholay, was shot. Other famous hills in the region include the Revanasideshwara hill and Handigundi. Bilikal Rangaswamy Betta is a popular tourist spot in the district. These hills have been threatened by quarrying and also plans to carve these hills into statues. The region is covered in scrub forest and is home to threatened bird species such as the yellow-throated bulbul and

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s. The hill is today one of the few locations in south India where long-billed vultures nest. The region is also home to numerous

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Closepet granites

The Closepet granites are a major geological feature of this region and are from the Lower Proterozoic era. This belt of rocks extends in the north-south direction in 50 km belt. This belt has younger potassic granites and is believed to separate two distinct crustal blocks of Archaean age. The block to the west has low-grade granite-greenstone belts with iron-manganese ores and to the east are younger gneiss of granitic and granodioritic composition with gold-bearing schist belts.

Demographics

According to the 2011 census Ramanagara district has a

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of 1,082,636, roughly equal to the nation of

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or the US state of

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. This gives it a ranking of 421st in India (out of a total of 640). The district has a population density of . Its population growth rate over the decade 2001-2011 was 5.06%. Ramanagara has a

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of 976 females for every 1000 males, and a

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of 69.2%. Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes make up 18.83% and 2.12% of the population respectively. At the time of the 2011 census, 83.49% of the population spoke

, 10.51%

Urdu Urdu (;"Urdu"
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, 1.32% Lambadi and 1.08%

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as their first language.

Economy

is famous for its silk market, one of the biggest in

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, giving it the other name of Silk City, It is also called as Cosmopolitan Cocoon Market because of the people from different states participates in cocoon transaction here. On an average, 35 Metric tons of cocoons are being transacted daily in this market. *In

, there are 600 cottage basins (improved), 85 multi-end reeling units and 04 Automatic Reeling Unit of 400 Ends capacities. There are also about 95 Twisting units functioning at this place. *Ramanagara district includes the Bidadi Industrial Area and Harohalli Industrial Area the first Industrial Areas in the state, which houses the manufacturing units of Toyota, Coca-Cola, and a 1400 MW combined cycle gas-based power plant.

References

External links

Official website
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