Belthangady taluk

Belthangady Taluk (Beltangadi Taluka) is a rural taluka of the Dakshina Kannada district of Karnataka, India. The headquarters is the town of Belthangady. Of the five taluks in Dakshina Kannada, it is the largest in area and the second smallest in population. There are two towns, Belthangady and Kuvettu, and forty-three panchayat villages in Belthangady Taluk. There are thirty-six other inhabited, non-panchayat, villages. The Karnataka Assembly constituency is Belthangady.