Banakal is a town in Mudigere Taluk,

Chikkamagaluru district Chikmagalur, officially Chikkamagaluru () is an administrative district in the Malnad subregion of Karnataka, India. It was called Kadur (''Cuddoor'') district till 1947. Coffee was first cultivated in India in Chikmagalur. The hills of Chikmaga ...

of Karnataka, India, in the

Charmadi Charmadi Ghat (Charmady) is a ghatti beginning from Belthangady taluk of Dakshina Kannada and ending in Mudigere taluk of Chikmagalur. It is one of the points in Western ghats through which motorable road passes connecting Dakshina Kannad ...

hills in the Western Ghats and on the banks of the

Hemavati River The Hemavati is a river in southern India's Karnataka and an important tributary of the Kaveri. Origin and course The source of the Hemavati River lies in the Western Ghats (Javali village) at an elevation of about . Located in Mudigere ta ...

. The geographical location of Banakal is 13°0'59" North and 75°53'9" East.

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''Rivers of the Western Ghats''
{{Chikkamagaluru topics Villages in Chikmagalur district Hill stations in Karnataka