{"id":349136,"date":"2025-11-03T15:51:37","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T10:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=349136"},"modified":"2025-11-03T16:26:39","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T10:56:39","slug":"bhavani-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/bhavani-island\/","title":{"rendered":"Bhavani Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>News:<\/strong> The Andhra Pradesh tourism department had closed Bhavani Island due to repeated floods at the Prakasam Barrage on the Krishna River.<\/p>\n<h2>About Bhavani Island<\/h2>\n<figure style=\"width: 343px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/aptourism.gov.in\/media-data\/images\/848\/bhavani.jpg?resize=343%2C174&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"343\" height=\"174\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Andhra Tourism<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Location:<\/strong> Bhavani Island is <strong>situated in the midst of the Krishna River, at Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh.\u00a0<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\">It is <strong>located at the upstream of Prakasam Barrage.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\">It is considered as <strong>one of the largest river islands in India<\/strong>, with an <strong>area of<\/strong> <strong>133 acre.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Naming:<\/strong> It is <strong>named after the Goddess Bhavani or Kanaka Durga<\/strong> whose temple is on the <strong>Indrakeeladri hill<\/strong> close to the island.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Terrain:<\/strong> The island\u2019s landscape<strong> is relatively flat, with gentle slopes<\/strong> leading down to the water\u2019s edge.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Flora:<\/strong> It is surrounded by <strong>mangroves, trees and manicured gardens.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Fauna:<\/strong> The island is home to several <strong>birds<\/strong>: the bright-coloured kingfisher heron and the egret, black-capped kingfisher bird.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong data-start=\"121\" data-end=\"139\">Bhavani Island<\/strong> stands as a premier destination for <strong data-start=\"176\" data-end=\"207\">water sports and recreation<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: The Andhra Pradesh tourism department had closed Bhavani Island due to repeated floods at the Prakasam Barrage on the Krishna River. About Bhavani Island Location: Bhavani Island is situated in the midst of the Krishna River, at Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh.\u00a0 It is located at the upstream of Prakasam Barrage. It is considered as one&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/bhavani-island\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bhavani Island<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10366,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,12023,4182,12039,11211],"tags":[11872,11074],"class_list":["post-349136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-disaster-management-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","category-environment","category-knolls","category-places-in-news","tag-9pm-daily-factly","tag-the-times-of-india","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10366"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}