Ruins of old León
León de Nagrando was founded in 1524 by the Captain of conquest Francisco Hernandez de Cordoba, who settled in this province at the request of Pedro Arias de Ávila (Pedrarias Dávila – Governor of Darién in Panama). It was given the name of León in reference to the city of the same name in Spain and called Capital of the Province of Nicaragua. The pre-Columbian population living in this area belonged to the Chorotegas group, specifically to the Nagrandanos tribe, who settled on the shore of Lake Xolotlán and whose main population center was the Imabite village. It was here…