
The Rajsamand Lake is situated near the Rajsamand town of
Rajasthan. It is located in the north of
Udaipur at a distance of sixty-eight kilometers between the towns of Rajnagar and Kankroli. The lake was formed when a dam was constructed across the Gomati, Kelwa and Tali Rivers at the southwestern end by Mahrana Raj Singh I in the 17th century. The lake is 1.75 miles in width, four miles in length and sixty feet in depth. The catchment area of the lake is nearly five hundred and eight square kilometers.