Granada
Granada is the oldest colonial city in Nicaragua and the all-time-rival of Leon. It is on the northwest side of the Lago Cocibolca. Its colored colonial buildings, interesting history and relative safety make it an important tourism destination.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Guillaume Baviere, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Photo: Armigo, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: City with 103,000 residents
- Description: city in Nicaragua
- Also known as: “Granada, Nicaragua”, “New Granada”, and “Santiago de Granada”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Granada Cathedral and Iglesia de la Merced.
Granada Cathedral
Church
The Our Lady of the Assumption Cathedral also called Granada Cathedral is a neoclassical Catholic cathedral located in Granada, Nicaragua, 40 kilometres southeast of Managua.
Iglesia de la Merced
Church
Photo: Guillaume Baviere, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Iglesia de la Merced is a church.
Granada
- Categories: big city, municipality of Nicaragua, and locality
- Location: Granada Department, Southern Pacific Coast, Nicaragua, Central America, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
11.9304° or 11° 55′ 49″ northLongitude
-85.9535° or 85° 57′ 13″ westPopulation
103,000Elevation
62 metres (203 feet)United Nations Location Code
NI GRAOpen location code
763PW2JW+4HOpenStreetMap ID
node 175683474OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Granada” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Granada”
- Arabic: “غراندا، نيكاراغوا”
- Arabic: “غرناطة”
- Aragonese: “Granada”
- Armenian: “Գրանադա (Նիկարագուա)”
- Armenian: “Գրանադա”
- Arpitan: “Granada”
- Asturian: “Granada”
- Basque: “Granada (Nikaragua)”
- Basque: “Granada”
- Bavarian: “Granada”
- Belarusian: “Гранада (Нікарагуа)”
- Belarusian: “Гранада”
- Bengali: “গ্রানাডা”
- Breton: “Granada”
- Bulgarian: “Гранада”
- Catalan: “Granada”
- Catalan: “Nova Granada”
- Cebuano: “Granada”
- Chinese: “Granada”
- Chinese: “格拉纳达”
- Corsican: “Granada”
- Croatian: “Granada”
- Czech: “Granada”
- Danish: “Granada”
- Dutch: “Granada”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جراندا”
- Emilian: “Granada”
- Esperanto: “Granado”
- Estonian: “Granada”
- Finnish: “Granada”
- French: “Granada”
- Friulian: “Granada”
- Galician: “Granada, Nicaragua”
- Galician: “Granada”
- Georgian: “გრანადა”
- German: “Granada”
- German: “Santiago de Granada”
- Greek: “Γρανάδα”
- Gujarati: “ગ્રેનાડા”
- Gujarati: “ગ્રેનેડા”
- Hindi: “ग्रेनाडा, निकारागुआ”
- Hindi: “ग्रेनाडा”
- Hungarian: “Granada”
- Icelandic: “Granada”
- Ido: “Granada”
- Indonesian: “Granada, Nikaragua”
- Indonesian: “Granada”
- Interlingua: “Granada”
- Interlingue: “Granada”
- Irish: “Granada”
- Italian: “Granada”
- Japanese: “グラナダ”
- Kannada: “ಗ್ರಾನಡಾ”
- Kongo: “Granada”
- Korean: “그라나다”
- Ladino: “Granada”
- Latvian: “Granada”
- Ligurian: “Granada”
- Limburgan: “Granada”
- Lithuanian: “Granada”
- Low German: “Granada”
- Luxembourgish: “Granada”
- Malagasy: “Granada”
- Malay: “Granada”
- Maltese: “Granada l-Ġdida”
- Maltese: “Granada”
- Maltese: “Santiago de Granada”
- Marathi: “ग्रॅनडा”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Granada (Nicaragua)”
- Minangkabau: “Granada”
- Moksha: “Гранада”
- Narom: “Granada”
- Neapolitan: “Granada”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Granada”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Granada”
- Norwegian: “Granada”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Granada”
- Ossetian: “Гранадæ”
- Persian: “گرانادا”
- Picard: “Granada”
- Piemontese: “Granada”
- Polish: “Granada”
- Portuguese: “Granada”
- Portuguese: “Nova Granada”
- Portuguese: “Nueva Granada”
- Romanian: “Granada, Nicaragua”
- Romansh: “Granada”
- Russian: “Гранада”
- Russian: “Гренада”
- Sardinian: “Granada”
- Scots: “Granada, Nicaragua”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Granada”
- Serbian: “Granada”
- Serbian: “Гранада”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Granada (Nikaragva)”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Granada”
- Sicilian: “Granada”
- Silesian: “Granada”
- Sinhala: “ග්රනඩා”
- Sinhala: “ග්රනාඩා”
- Slovak: “Granada”
- Slovenian: “Granada, Nikaragva”
- Slovenian: “Granada”
- South Azerbaijani: “قرانادا (نیکاراقوئه)”
- South Azerbaijani: “قرانادا”
- Spanish: “Granada”
- Spanish: “Nueva Granada”
- Spanish: “Santiago de Granada”
- Swahili: “Granada”
- Swedish: “Granada, Nicaragua”
- Swedish: “Granada”
- Swiss German: “Granada”
- Tajik: “Гранада (Никарагуа)”
- Tajik: “Гранада”
- Tamil: “கிரனடா”
- Tamil: “கிரானாடா”
- Tatar: “Гранада (Никарагуа)”
- Tatar: “Гранада”
- Telugu: “గ్రనాడా”
- Thai: “กรานาดา”
- Turkish: “Granada”
- Ukrainian: “Гранада”
- Urdu: “گرینادا، نکاراگوا”
- Venetian: “Granada”
- Vietnamese: “Granada, Nicaragua”
- Vlaams: “Granada”
- Volapük: “Granada”
- Walloon: “Granada”
- Waray (Philippines): “Granada, Nicaragua”
- Welsh: “Granada”
- Wolof: “Granada”
- Zulu: “Granada”
- “Granada”
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