Nigüelas is a municipality in the province of Granada, in the autonomous community of Andalusia, southern Spain. It lies in the Lecrín Valley area of Granada, south of the Sierra Nevada and roughly 30 kilometres from the city of Granada.
According to the 2012 census (INE), the town had a population of 1,203. Like other settlements in the Lecrín Valley, it is set among terraced hillsides and irrigated farmland fed by water from the Sierra Nevada.