Granada is a municipality in the Granada department of Nicaragua and the latter's capital. A municipality or general-purpose district (compare with: special-purpose district) is an administrative local area generally composed of a clearly defined territory and commonly referring to a city, town, or village government. ... Granada is a department in Nicaragua. ... Nicaragua is a unitary republic. ...

Granada is located on the shores of Lake Granada (Lake Nicaragua), a popular tourist site due to the presence of hundreds of small islands (Las Isletas de Granada, about 354–365 islets in all) that were formed when the nearby (12 km south of Granada) Mombacho volcano's (1344 m) north-east flank scarp collapsed in a large debris avalanche [1] sometime in the distant past. The islands range from a few metres across up to more than an hectare; many of the larger ones are uninhabited and are for sale. The volcano has not been active for at least the last 500 years, and the main danger it presents are its debris flows (including lahars), triggered by earthquakes or intense rainfall; the last such was in 1570, which destroyed the village of Mombacho, whence the volcano's name. Lake Nicaragua (Spanish: Lago de Nicaragua) or Lake Cocibolca (Lago Cocibolca) is a freshwater lake in Nicaragua and it is of tectonic origin. ... Lahar from a March 1982 eruption of Mount St. ... Events January 23 - The assassination of regent James Stewart, Earl of Moray throws Scotland into civil war February 25 - Pope Pius V excommunicates Queen Elizabeth I of England with the bull Regnans in Excelsis May 20 - Abraham Ortelius issues the first modern atlas. ...

Coordinates: 11°56′N 85°57′W Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ...