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GOVERNMENT RAILWAY STATION : GRANADA, NICARAGUA 



Granada is the southern terminus of the railway system of Nicaragua, which amounts 

 altogether to about 150 miles, connecting the Pacific port of Corinto with Leon, Managua, and 

 Granada. The public roads are very bad at all times and in the rainy season are impassable. 

 There are steamers on Lakes Managua and Nicaragua, and also flat-bottomed steamers on the 

 San Juan River between Lake Nicaragua and Greytown (San Juan), on the Mosquito Gulf. 

 Thus there is steam communication by rail and water between Corinto on the Pacific and 

 Greytown on the Atlantic side. The station at Granada is a very attractive structure and 

 would be creditable to any city of its size. The present population is 20,000. 



This point, which he named Cape Gracias 

 a Dios (Thanks to God), is in Nicaragua, 

 and it has retained ever since the name 

 given by Columbus. On September 25, 

 1502, he landed and took possession of 

 the country in the name of the Spanish 

 Crown. 



In 1524 Hernandez de Cordoba was 



dispatched from Panama to bring the 

 country under subjugation. This he did, 

 defeating the Indians and making several 

 settlements. Some years prior to this 

 Gil Gonzalez had explored the country, 

 and had discovered Lake Nicaragua. In 

 1570 Nicaragua became a part of the 

 captain-generalcy of Guatemala. 



