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{{Infobox settlement
| name = Bagepalli
| other_name =
| settlement_type = city
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| pushpin_map = India Karnataka
| pushpin_label_position = right
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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 = [[States and territories of India|State]]
| subdivision_type2 = [[List of districts of India|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 = [[Indian Standard Time|IST]]
| utc_offset1 = +5:30
| postal_code_type = [[Postal Index Number|PIN]]
| postal_code = 561207<ref name="pincode">{{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}}</ref>
| registration_plate = KA-40
| website = http://www.bagepallitown.mrc.gov.in
| footnotes =
| demographics1_info1 = Kannada
}}
'''Bagepalli''' is a town [[municipal council]] in [[Chikballapur district]] in the state of [[Karnataka]], [[India]]. Bagepalli is situated 100 km north of [[Bangalore]] on the Bangalore-[[Hyderabad district (India)|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.<ref>http://www.bagepallitown.mrc.gov.in/</ref>

==Geography==
Bagepalli is located at {{Coord|13.78|N|77.79|E|}}.<ref>[http://www.fallingrain.com/world/IN/19/Bagepalli.html Falling Rain Genomics, Inc - Bagepalli]</ref> 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 [[Tillage|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 oil plant|castor]] on the field bunds. Irrigated [[peanut|groundnut]], [[mulberry]], [[onions]] and [[sunflower]] are the common bore-well irrigated crops. [[Finger millet|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]],<ref>{{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|work= |publisher= Census Commission of India}}</ref> Bagepalli had a population of 1,69,689.<ref>[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 }}</ref> 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 6 years of age.

==References==
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[[Category:Cities and towns in Chikkaballapur district]]

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