Mahabaleshwar
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Mahabaleshwar
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Hill station
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- MAHABALESWAR LANDSCAPE.jpg
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- India Maharashtra#India3
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- right
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- 1
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- Country
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- State
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- District
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Maharashtra
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Satara District
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- Metric
Article
16 sectionsContents
- Geography
- Climate
- History
- British Raj era
- Demographics
- Transport
- Rail
- Air
- Tourism
- Pratapgad
- Wilson Point
- Gallery of places of interest to tourism
- In popular culture
- References
- External links
- Further reading
Mahabaleshwar () is a small town and a municipal council in Satara district, Maharashtra, India. It is a place of pilgrimage because the Krishna River, which considered sacred by Hindus, has its origin here along with five of its tributaries. The British colonial rulers developed the town as a hill station, and it served as the summer capital of the Bombay Presidency during the colonial rule.
==Geography== Mahabaleshwar is located on the mountainous Sahyadri range of the Western Ghats that run north to south along the western coast of India. The coordinates of the town are . Mahabaleshwar is a vast plateau measuring , bound by valleys on all sides. It reaches a height of at its highest peak above sea level, known as Wilson/Sunrise Point. The town is about southwest of Pune and from Mumbai.