Puthige is a small village with its own panchayath administration, located in Kasaragod district of Kerala, India.

[2] This locality is an essentially multi-lingual region.

The people speak Malayalam, Kannada, Tulu, Beary bashe and Konkani.

Migrant workers also speak Hindi and Tamil languages.

This village is part of Manjeswaram assembly constituency which is again part of Kasaragod (Lok Sabha constituency) The following 14 wards are the constituent villages of the Puthige Panchayath administration system.