About Lonar

Lonar is a town and a municipal council in Buldhana district of the division of Buldhana of the region of Vidarbha in the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is a taluka of the district of Buldhana and is located near Mehkar. It is an important place in Buldhana district and is famous for Lonar crater and Lonar Lake, which is located at 1958N 7630E / 19.967N 76.5E / 19.967; 76.5 (Lonar Lake). Lonar is situated around 550 km from Mumbai, around 160km from Aurangabad and around 140km via Buldhana with about 4hours drive southeast of the famous Ajanta Caves. Lonar is located at 195906N 763123E / 19.985N 76.52306E / 19.985; 76.52306 (Lonar). It has an average elevation of 563metres (1847feet). Lonar Lake is a saltwater lake at Lonar in Buldana district, Maharashtra, India, which was created by a meteor hitting the Earth during the Pleistocene Epoch.[1] The impact crater thereby formed is the only hypervelocity meteoritic impact crater on basalt rock.[2][3] A lake...