Bagepalli
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{{Use Indian English|date=January 2019}}
{{Infobox settlement
| name = Bagepalli
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| settlement_type = city
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| pushpin_map = India Karnataka
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| pushpin_map_caption = Location in Karnataka, India
| coordinates = {{coord|13.78|N|77.79|E|display=inline,title}}
| subdivision_type = Country
| subdivision_name = {{flag|India}}
| subdivision_type1 = State
| subdivision_type2 = District
| subdivision_name1 = Karnataka
| subdivision_name2 = Chikballapur district
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| unit_pref = Metric
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| elevation_m = 707
| population_total = 27011
| population_as_of = 2011
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| demographics_type1 = Languages
| demographics1_title1 = Official
| timezone1 = IST
| utc_offset1 = +5:30
| postal_code_type = PIN
| postal_code = 561207{{cite web|url=https://pin-code.net/in-loc/bagepalli-pin-code/511522/|title=Bagepalli Pin code|publisher=pin-code.net|accessdate=19 June 2021}}
| registration_plate = KA-40
| website = http://www.bagepallitown.mrc.gov.in
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| demographics1_info1 = Kannada
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Bagepalli is a town municipal council in Chikkaballapura district in the state of Karnataka, India. Bagepalli is situated 100 km north of Bangaluru on the Bangalore-Hyderabad National Highway. The region is just below the southern border of the Rayalaseema in Andhra Pradesh, South India. It is semi-arid and drought prone with 535 mm of erratic and spatial rainfall.{{cite web |url=http://www.bagepallitown.mrc.gov.in/ |title=Home |website=bagepallitown.mrc.gov.in}}
Geography
Bagepalli is located at {{Coord|13.78|N|77.79|E|}}.[http://www.fallingrain.com/world/IN/19/Bagepalli.html Falling Rain Genomics, Inc - Bagepalli] It has an average elevation of 707 metres (2319 ft).
The region is a semi arid drought prone one with low, erratic and spatial rainfall. The dust brown rocky terrain is severely undulating, with small hill ranges and outcrops that stud the topography. There is no mineral wealth and only a very thin and fragile soil cover.
An adverse land:person ratio creates a strong thirst for cultivable land since less than one-half of the total land is fit for cultivation, with the remaining taken over by the hills and rocky fields. Hardly 5% of the cropped lands are irrigated by an age old network of rain-fed tanks (small lakes), each irrigating 2 to 10 hectares of wet land. The low water table is tapped through bore-wells drilled to more than 100 meters depth. Even these dry up in the summer months, from April to September every year, when temperatures rise to a dry heat of 38 °C.
The average rainfall is 535 mm a year and this is, moreover, erratic and spatial. As a result there is only 1 rain-fed crop a year, whose stand is from late June till December. Groundnuts are grown on these dry lands, inter-cropped with red gram, cowpea, field beans, green gram, jowar, maize and castor on the field bunds. Irrigated groundnut, mulberry, onions and sunflower are the common bore-well irrigated crops. Ragi (golden millet) and a coarse variety of paddy are cultivated under irrigation tanks. Every fifth or sixth year is a drought, followed by near famine conditions.
Demographics
As of 2001 India census,{{cite web|url=http://www.censusindia.net/results/town.php?stad=A&state5=999|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20040616075334/http://www.censusindia.net/results/town.php?stad=A&state5=999|archivedate=2004-06-16|title= Census of India 2001: Data from the 2001 Census, including cities, villages and towns (Provisional)|accessdate=2008-11-01|publisher= Census Commission of India}} Bagepalli had a population of 1,69,689.[http://www.chikballapur.nic.in/district_areapopulation-1.html Chikballapur District Profile] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101125225440/http://www.chikballapur.nic.in/district_areapopulation-1.html |date=2010-11-25 }} Males constitute 50.7% of the population and females 49.3%. Bagepalli has an average literacy rate of 63%, higher than the national average of 59.5%; with 56% of the males and 44% of females literate. 12% of the population is under 7 years of age.
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|caption = Languages of Bagepalli Taluk (2011 census){{cite web |title=Language – India, States and Union Territories |url=http://www.censusindia.gov.in/2011Census/C-16_25062018_NEW.pdf |work=Census of India 2011 |publisher=Office of the Registrar General |pages=12–14, 49 |access-date=8 September 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181114073412/http://www.censusindia.gov.in/2011Census/C-16_25062018_NEW.pdf |archive-date=14 November 2018 |url-status=live}}
|label2 = Kannada |value2 = 32.26|color2 = darkslateblue
|label1 = Telugu |value1 = 55.26 |color1 = steelblue
|label3 = Urdu |value3 = 9.29 |color3 = green
|label4 = Hindi |value4 = 2.78 |color4 = orange
|label5 = Others |value5 = 0.42 |color5 = gray
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