Diveagar (Dive Agar) is a village located in

Shrivardhan Taluka Shrivardhan taluka is a taluka in Raigad district in the Indian state of Maharashtra. The town of Shrivardhan is the administrative headquarters of this taluka. Raigad district As of August 2015, there were 8 subdivisions, 15 talukas, 1,970 vil ...

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in the

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n state of

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, approximately 170 kilometers south of

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. The region includes a fishing settlement, a beach, a temple, local businesses engaged in coconut and beetle nut tree farming, and some tourism businesses such as restaurants, cottage rentals and hotels, and six villages (from north to south): Velas, Musalmāndi,

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, Diveagar, Borli Panchatan, and Karle. A Suvarna Ganesh Mandir with lord Ganesh idol of gold is famous in Diveagar for tourists, the Ganesh idol was stolen on 24.3.2012 by some miscreants. The beach, facing the

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, is approximately four kilometres long and undeveloped. At the north end of the beach where a small stream enters the ocean there is the fishing settlement, Velas Agar, and some paddy farming, while at the south end there is a sanctuary for migratory seabirds. Nearby, there is a small fishing village, where vendors sell fresh fish, which goes by name of

Bharadkhol Bharadkhol is a coastal village in the Shrivardhan Taluk in Raigad District in Maharashtra State, India. It is close to popular beach town of Diveagar Diveagar (Dive Agar) is a village located in Shrivardhan Taluka, Raigad district in ...

. The beach is accessible from the Mumbai-Goa highway via Kolad or Karnala. The beach contains a number of suru trees (''

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''), which are common to coastal

. The access to the beach has a dense cover of belu trees, which are otherwise uncommon in the area.

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