Vengadamangalam Temple Tank (Waterbodies of Chennai - 7)

Covering an area of about 2 acres, this beautiful pond is located in a serene location. It is surrounded by trees, and a temple for Tiruvengada Perumal is on its bank. There is water in this pond even in the scorching hot weather. One should visit this site to experience a perfect village atmosphere.

Only a few in the city know about this location. It is a remote village called Vengadamangalam, located around 18 km from Tambaram, the southern outskirts of Chennai.

Happy travelling.

Note: As per a report, there were about 650+ waterbodies in the Chennai region till the 1980s. Today, only a fraction of them exist. Most of those surviving waterbodies hardly have water, and even some of them that have water had been shrunk badly. In Chennai, there are tank roads without tanks nearby, and lake view roads without any lake in the vicinity. There is a high possibility that even the few water bodies that we have today might vanish in the near future. I thought of visiting the currently surviving waterbodies of Chennai and its suburbs and write about them in my blog as a series.