Jaisamand Lake, Udaipur
  • 13 years ago
"Jaisamand Lake in udaipur. It is also called as Dhebar Lake. Jaisamand Lake is Asia's second-largest artificial lake. It is located in the Udaipur District of Rajasthan state in western India. It has an area of 87 km² (36 square miles) when full, and was created in the 17th century when Rana Jai Singh of Udaipur built a marble dam across the Gomati River. The lake has a total number of 3 islands measuring from 10 to 40 acres (160,000 m2) each. The statistics of the lake is 9 miles (14 km) in breadth, 102 feet (31 m) deep at its deepest end, a circumference of 30 miles (48 km), with marble staircases leading into the water. Dhebar Lake has elegant steps leading to the water and marble Chhatri (cenotaphs) on its bank with a small Shiv temple that marks the grace of the lake. This footage is part of the professionally-shot stock footage archive of Wilderness Films India Ltd., the largest collection of imagery from South Asia. The Wilderness Films India collection comprises of thousands of hours of high quality broadcast imagery, mostly shot on HDCAM 1080i High Definition, HDV and Digital Betacam. Write to us for licensing this footage on a broadcast format, for use in your production! We pride ourselves in bringing the best of India and South Asia to the world... wfi @ vsnl.com and admin@wildfilmsindia.com.
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