Upponi observes Mysuru Dasara on Sunday, 11 October 2026, along with the rest of Karnataka.
The principal temple recorded for Honavar mandal is Ganesha temple. No temple of this dedication is on record within Upponi itself.
Nadahabba — the state festival. Bombe Habba doll steps at home; Mysuru Dasara is the public form, the Jamboo Savari procession on Vijayadashami carrying the Chamundeshwari idol on a decorated elephant.
The regional form observed across Karnataka. How any one household or village keeps it varies, and is not something recorded here.
By population, Upponi ranks #26 of 93 villages in Honavar mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Upponi is a village of 1,763 people in 348 households (Census 2011) in Honavar taluk, Uttara Kannada district, Karnataka, the 26th-largest of 93 villages in Honavar taluk. Literacy is 73%, 2 points below the taluk average of 75% and the sex ratio is 950 women per 1,000 men. It lies 63 km from the Uttara Kannada district centre, 14 km from Manki, the nearest town, 13 km from Manki railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 581334, served by Honavar post office; the LGD village code is 603807. The nearest hospital or health centre is Government Hospital, 2 km away. The village votes in Bhatkal assembly constituency, represented by MLA Mankal Vaidya. The population is estimated at 2,079 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Upponi →
Source: Census of India 2011, Village Directory. Facilities may have changed since.
Water supply timings, gram sabha dates, camps and drives — residents post them here and they expire on their own.
1 Mosque mapped by OpenStreetMap contributors. Residents can add the village jatara and temple festival under Events.
Sources: Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner of India (Census 2011 + Population Projections 2011-2036) · International Institute for Population Sciences (NFHS-5) · Election Commission of India · data.gov.in (Jal Jeevan Mission, PMAY-G, SBM-G dashboards). Projections may differ from on-the-ground reality by ±20% for individual villages. An asterisk next to a sex-ratio value (—*) flags a Census 2011 figure outside the plausible range of 300–2000 ♀/1000♂; the underlying source row is suppressed pending review.
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