GAVIA-GRANDE, a secular town of Spain, in the province and archbishopric of Granada. It is situated in a plain on the left bank of the Genil, and surrounded with beautiful gardens and fields of the richest verdure, teeming with grain and fruits in their season. It contains a parish church, a primary school, and has manufactures of linen, several oil-mills, gypsum and stone quarries, as well as a good trade in flax, hemp, and corn. It is three miles distant from Granada, and has a population of nearly 5000.