23 Gaganachukki Waterfall

Gaganachukki Waterfall is at Shivanasamudra Island (Which is about 85kms to the east of Mysore). Gaganachukki means waterfall from the sky. It is said that the Gaganachukki falls are shaped like a large horsetail and you can see why from the picture below.

At Shivanasamudra the river Cauvery cascades down a deep rocky gorge in two breathtakingly beautiful segmented waterfalls - Gaganachukki and Bharachukki The river divides around the 700-acre picturesque Shivanasamudra Island. On the one side, it forms the Gaganachukki falls and on the other side are the Bharachukki falls.The sight of these two falls is enchanting and the best time to visit them is during the monsoon. The falls are considered to be one among the 100 best waterfalls in the world. There is a hydral power generation station belonging to Karnataka state. This hydral power plant is the first in Asia.


Gaganachukki waterfall itself is split into two segments and a common misconception about Gaganachukki is that left segment is called Gaganachukki and the right segment is called Bharachukki. In reality the Bharachukki falls are a about 2 kilomoters to the south-west of the Gaganachukki falls. This is due to the Kaveri river itself splitting a few kilometers to the south into western and eastern branches The western branch results in the twin waterfalls of Gaganachukki. (The picture above and below are the two segments of Gaganachukki)

The Waterfall in the above picture is nick named ROARER and you can imagine why

The WaterFalls are created as the River Cauvery has wound its way through the rocks and ravines of the Deccan Plateau and drops off to form waterfall, Gaganachukki is about 80 meter's high.