Mukka is a suburb of
Mangalore city on the shore of the
Arabian Sea along
Coastal Karnataka
Kanara, also known as Karavali is the historically significant stretch of land situated by the southwestern coast of India, alongside the Arabian Sea in the present-day Indian state of Karnataka.
The region comprises three civil districts, ...
. It is located along NH-66 very close to
NITK
National Institute of Technology Karnataka (NITK), also known as NITK Surathkal, formerly known as Karnataka Regional Engineering College (KREC), is a public technical university at Surathkal, Mangalore. It was founded in 1960 as KREC while to ...
,
Surathkal
Surathkal is one of the major localities in the northern part of Mangalore city located on NH-17, National highway 66 (previously as NH-17) in the Dakshina Kannada, Dakshina Kannada district, Karnataka state, India on the shore of Arabian sea. ...
towards
Udupi. It is the gateway to Mangalore city from the north & an educational centre. It was a small town-village once upon a time but in the recent years (from 2010) the region is developing both educationally & commercially. Mukka has earned popularity because of
Srinivas College of Engineering & Technology Srinivasa (Sanskrit ) is a Hindu name. The term Srinivasa is Vaishnava in origin, the combination of two Sanskrit words, ''Shri'' (श्री) and ''nivasa'' (निवास).
It is a name for males in India as well as a family surname. Shrini ...
and
.
The official language is
Kannada but
Tulu
Tulu may refer to:
People
*Derartu Tulu (born 1972), Ethiopian long-distance runner
*Walid Yacoubou (born 1997), Togolese footballer nicknamed "Tulu"
India
*Tulu calendar, traditional solar calendar generally used in the regions of southwest Kar ...
is the main language spoken here.
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Tourism
Beaches of Karnataka
Localities in Mangalore
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