Home Information about the Caribbean Southern Grenada The Caribbean Island of Grenada Grenada is an island nation and sovereign state consisting of the island of Grenada and six smaller islands at the southern end of the Grenadines in the southeastern Caribbean Sea. Grenada is located northwest of Trinidad and Tobago, northeast of Venezuela, and southwest of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. Its size is 344 km² with an estimated population of 110,000. Its capital is St. George's. The national bird of Grenada is the critically endangered Grenada Dove. History Grenada Geography On his third voyage to the New World in 1498, Columbus sailed by Grenada and named it Concepcion. The British attempted a small settlement in 1609, but it was the French that successfully battled the cannibalistic Carib Indians, finally driving them off the island in 1651. Military and political struggles continued on the islands for two centuries, with Grenada finally becoming an independent country in 1974. | |
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