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Badkhal
Lake was
a
natural
lake
situated
in
Badkhal
village
near Faridabad,
built
in
1947
in
the
Indian
state
of
Haryana,
about
32
kilometers
from Delhi.
Fringed
by
the
hills
of
the Aravalli
Range this
was
a
man-made
embankment.
Owing
to
unchecked
mining
in
neighbouring
areas,
the
lake
has
now
totally
dried
up.
There
are
functional
Haryana
Tourism
restaurants
in
the
vicinity.
A
flower
show
is
held
every
spring
here.
Its
name
is
most
probably
derived
from
the
Persian
word bedakhal,
which
means
free
from
interference.
Close
to
Badkhal
Lake,
is
the
Peacock
Lake,
which
is
another
picturesque
spot.
It
is
an
important biodiversity area
within
the Northern
Aravalli
leopard
wildlife
corridor stretching
from Sariska
Tiger
Reserve to
Delhi.
Historical
place
around
sanctuary
are
the
10th
century
ancient Surajkund reservoir
(15
km
north)
and Anangpur
Dam (16
km
north), Damdama
Lake, Tughlaqabad
Fort and Adilabad
ruins (both
in
Delhi), Chhatarpur
Temple (in
Delhi).[1] There
are
several
dozen
lakes
formed
in
the
abandoned open
pit
mines in
and
around
the
sanctuary.
It
is
contiguous
to
the
seasonal waterfalls
in
Pali-Dhuaj-Kot
villages
of
Faridabad[2],
the
scared Mangar
Bani and
the Asola
Bhatti
Wildlife
Sanctuary.
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