Granada, Granada, Nicaragua
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Granada is a municipality in the Granada department of Nicaragua and the latter's capital.
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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.
