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{{Infobox settlement
| name = Diveagar Kokan
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| subdivision_name2 = [[Raigad district|Raigad]]
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[[File:Diveagar beach another view.jpg|thumb|300px|right|Another view of Diveagar beach]]
[[File:Diveagar Ganpati Temple.JPG|thumb|300px|right|Diveagar Ganpati Temple]]
[[File:Cliffside Beach Drive.jpg|thumb]]
'''Diveagar''' ('''Dive Agar''') is a village located in [[Shrivardhan|Shrivardhan Taluka]], [[Raigad district]] in the [[India]]n state of [[Maharashtra]],<ref>{{GEOnet2|32FA8852B2473774E0440003BA962ED3|Diveāgar (Approved)}}, [[National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency|United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency]]</ref> approximately 170 kilometers south of [[Mumbai]]. The region includes a fishing settlement, a beach, a temple, local businesses engaged in coconut and beetle nut tree farming, and some tourism businesses such as restaurants, cottage rentals and hotels, and six villages (from north to south): Velas, Musalmāndi, [[Agar Panchaitan]], Diveagar, Borli Panchatan, and Karle. A Suvarna Ganesh Mandir with lord Ganesh idol of gold is famous in Diveagar for tourists, the Ganesh idol was stolen on 24.3.2012 by some miscreants. The beach, facing the [[Arabian Sea]], is approximately four kilometres long<ref>see GoogleEarth</ref> and undeveloped. At the north end of the beach where a small stream enters the ocean there is the fishing settlement, Velas Agar, and some paddy farming, while at the south end there is a sanctuary for migratory seabirds. Nearby, there is a small fishing village, where vendors sell fresh fish, which goes by name of [[Bharadkhol]].<ref>{{cite web|title=www.konkanyatra.com/diveagar/places.html|url=http://www.konkanyatra.com/diveagar/places.html|accessdate=4 April 2013|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130329052940/http://www.konkanyatra.com/diveagar/places.html|archivedate=29 March 2013|df=dmy-all}}</ref> The beach is accessible from the Mumbai-Goa highway via Kolad or Karnala.

The beach contains a number of suru trees ([[Casuarina]]), which are common to coastal [[Maharashtra]]. The access to the beach has a dense cover of belu trees, which are otherwise uncommon in the area.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Diveagar Beach|date=31 October 2014|publisher=Puneri Travellers|location=India|url=http://www.diveagar.ind.in/}}</ref>

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[[Category:Beaches of Maharashtra]]
[[Category:Tourist attractions in Raigad district]]
[[Category:Geography of Raigad district]]
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