Lonar
Sign in to saveLonar is a town, just 79 km from Buldhana city and municipal council in Buldhana district of Vidarbha region of the Indian state of Maharashtra. The town is the headquarter of Lonar taluka and is located near Mehkar.
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Place details
- Locality
- Lonar
- Region
- Maharashtra
- Country
- India
- Population
- 23,416
- Timezone
- Asia/Kolkata
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Lonar
- Settlement.native_name_lang
- Marathi
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Town
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Lonar Sarovar lake Maharastra.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Aerial view of Lonar crater lake in Buldhana district (Maharashtra)
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- India Maharashtra
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- right
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Maharashtra, India
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- State
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Maharashtra
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- District
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human settlement
- Country
- India
- Located in
- Maharashtra
- Area
- +0.66
- Elevation
- +563
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30
- Shares border with
- Mehkar
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Article
8 sectionsContents
- Geography
- Demographics
- Lonar crater
- Flora and fauna
- Ambar lake
- Temples
- Transport and tourism
- References
Lonar is a town, just 79 km from Buldhana city and municipal council in Buldhana district of Vidarbha region of the Indian state of Maharashtra. The town is the headquarter of Lonar taluka and is located near Mehkar.
Lonar is famous for Lonar crater and Lonar Lake, which is located at . It is a meteorite crater created in the Pleistocene Epoch. The crater contains salt water lake is 1.8 km in diameter and is about 137 m below the level of the crater rim. A small fresh water stream drains into the lake. Due to evaporite effects, the lake is mineral rich and salty and sodium and potassium salts are extracted from it.