Miss Colombia (Formally Concurso Nacional de Belleza de Colombia, English: "National Beauty Contest of Colombia") is the national beauty pageant organization in Colombia.

  • Señorita Colombia
  • Concurso Nacional de Belleza de Colombia
Formation1934; 90 years ago (1934)
PurposeBeauty pageant
HeadquartersCartagena
Location
  • Colombia
Official language
Spanish
National Director
Raimundo Angulo Pizarro
Affiliations
Websitesrtacolombia.org

The current Miss Colombia is Catalina Duque Abréu of Antioquia, who was crowned on 10 November 2024.[1]

Pageant rules

Colombia has rigid and strict rules regarding participation of any Miss Universe preliminary aspirant: once a contestant registers for the pageant, she is confined to her own Department and cannot move or relocate to other states/provinces. However, she can participate more than once for the same department. As example, the winner of 2003 had already come in fourth place at the Miss Valle pageant the year before she won and eventually went on to win the national title and crown.

Initially, the pageant's winners held the title for six months period; Yolanda Emiliani Roman, Miss Colombia 1934, held her title for the longest reign in the pageant's history. The winner of Señorita Colombia previously represented her country at Miss Universe, but will attend Miss International following a loss of the franchise in 2020. On occasion, when the winner does not qualify (such as due to age) for either contest, a runner-up finalist is selected by the national director and sent.

Titleholders

Year Señorita Colombia Department
1934 María Yolanda Emiliani Román† Bolívar
1947 María de la Piedad Gómez Román † Bolívar
1949 Myriam Carolina Sojo Zambrano† Atlántico
1951 María Leonor Navia Orejuela† Valle del Cauca
1953 Luz Marina Cruz Lozada Valle del Cauca
1955 Ligia Esperanza Gallón Domínguez Santander
1957 Doris Inés Gil Santamaría†[a] Antioquia
1958 Luz Marina Zuluaga
Miss Universe 1958 [b]
Caldas
1959 Stella Márquez
Miss International 1960
Nariño
1961 Sonia de la Candelaria Heidman Gómez Bolívar
1962 Martha Ligia Restrepo González Atlántico
1963 Leonor Duplat Sanjuán† Norte de Santander
1964 Martha Cecilia Calero Córdoba Valle del Cauca
1965 Edna Margarita Rudd Lucena Tolima
1966 Elsa María Garrido Cajiao Cauca
1967 Luz Elena Restrepo González Atlántico
1968 Margarita María Reyes Zawadzky Valle del Cauca
1969 María Luisa Riasco Velásquez Antioquia
1970 Piedad Mejía Trujillo Caldas
1971 María Luisa Lignarolo Martínez-Aparicio Atlántico
1972 Ana Lucía Agudelo Correa Valle del Cauca
1973 Ella Cecilia Escandón Palacios Santander
1974 Martha Lucía Echeverry Trujillo Valle del Cauca
1975 María Helena Reyes Abisambra Bogotá
1976 Aura María Mojica Salcedo Valle del Cauca
1977 Mary Shirley Sáenz Starnes Bogotá
1978 Ana Milena Parra Turbay Santander
1979 María Patricia Arbeláez Peláez Antioquia
1980 Nini Johanna Soto González Santander
1981 María Teresa Gómez Fajardo Antioquia
1982 Julie Pauline Sáenz Starnes Bogotá
1983 Susana Caldas Bolívar
1984 Sandra Eugenia Borda Caldas Bolívar
1985 María Mónica Urbina Plugiesse La Guajira
1986 María Patricia López Ruiz Antioquia
1987 Diana Patricia Arévalo Guerra Santander
1988 María Teresa Eugorrola Hinojosa La Guajira
1989 Lizeth Yamil Mahecha Arévalo Atlántico
1990 Maribel Judith Gutiérrez Tinoco Atlántico
1991 Paola Turbay Bogotá
1992 Paula Betancourt Amazonas
1993 Carolina Gómez Bogotá
1994 Tatiana Castro Cesar
1995 Lina María Gaviria Forero Meta
1996 Claudia Elena Vásquez Ángel Antioquia
1997 Silvia Fernanda Ortiz Guerra Santander
1998 Marianella Maal Paccini Atlántico
1999 Catalina Inés Acosta Albarracín Cundinamarca
2000 Andrea Nocetti Cartagena
2001 Vanessa Mendoza Chocó
2002 Diana Mantilla Santander
2003 Catherine Daza Valle del Cauca
2004 Adriana Tarud Atlántico
2005 Valerie Domínguez Atlántico
2006 Eileen Roca Cesar
2007 Taliana Vargas Magdalena
2008 Michelle Rouillard Cauca
2009 Natalia Navarro Bolívar
2010 Catalina Robayo Valle del Cauca
2011 Daniella Álvarez Atlántico
2012 Lucia Aldana Valle del Cauca
2013 Paulina Vega
Miss Universe 2014
Atlántico
2014 Ariadna Gutiérrez Sucre
2015 Andrea Tovar Chocó
2016 Laura González Cartagena
2017 Valeria Morales Valle del Cauca
2018 Gabriela Tafur Valle del Cauca
2019 María Fernanda Aristizábal Quindío
2021 Valentina Espinosa Bolívar
2022 Sofía Osío Atlántico
2024 Catalina Duque[2] Antioquia
Note:
  1. ^ resigned Miss Colombia 1957
  2. ^ replaced Miss Colombia 1957

Colombia representatives at International pageants

The following women have represented Colombia in the international pageants.

Señorita Colombia – Internacional

Began in the 90s, the 1st Runner-up of Señorita Colombia represents her country at Miss International.
Year Miss International Colombia Placement Special Award(s)
2025 Catalina Duque Abréu TBA
2024 Juanita Urrea Posada Unplaced
2023 Sofía Osío Luna 1st Runner-Up
2022 Natalia López Cardona[3] 3rd Runner-Up
Due to the impact of COVID-19 pandemic, no pageant in 2020 and 2021
2019 Maria Alejandra Vengoechea 3rd Runner-Up
2018 Anabella Castro Sierra 4th Runner-Up
2017 Vanessa Pulgarin Monsalve Unplaced
2016 Yudy Daniela Herrera Avendaño Unplaced
2015 Natalia Ochoa Calle Unplaced
2014 Zuleika Suárez 1st Runner-Up
  • Miss Friendship
  • Miss Best Dresser
2013 Cindy Lorena Hermída Aguilar 4th Runner-Up
2012 Melissa Varón Top 15
2011 Natalia Valenzuela Cutiva Unplaced
2010 Leydi Viviana Gómez Cortés Unplaced
2009 Lina Marcela Mosquera Ochoa Unplaced
2008 Maria Cristina Diaz-Granados 1st Runner-Up
2007 Ana Milena Lamus Rodríguez Unplaced
2006 Karina Guerra Rodríguez Top 12
2005 Diana Arbeláez González Top 15
2004 Jeymmy Vargas Miss International 2004
2003 Isabel Sofia Cabrales Baquero Unplaced
2002 Consuelo Guzman Parra Unplaced
2001 Maria Rocio Stevenson Covo Top 15
2000 Carolina Cruz Osorio Top 15
1999 Paulina Gálvez Miss International 1999
  • Miss Photogenic
1998 Adriana Hurtado Novella Top 15
  • Best National Costume
1997 Ingrid Catherine Náder Haupt Top 15
1996 Claudia Inés de Torcoroma Mendoza Lemus 2nd Runner-Up
  • Best National Costume
1995 Iovana Soraya Grisales Castañeda Top 15
1994 Alexandra Betancur Marín Top 15
1993 Kathy Sáenz Herrera Top 15
  • Best National Costume
1992 Lina Maria Marin Díaz Top 15
  • Best National Costume
1991 Mónica Maria Escobar Freydell Top 15
1990 Elsa Victoria Rivera Botero Unplaced
1989 Clelia Alexandra Ablanque Moreno Unplaced
1988 Adriana Maria Escobar Mejía Top 15
1987 Michelle Betancourt Vergara Unplaced
  • Miss Friendship
1986 Maria del Carmen Zapata Valencia Top 15
1985 Maria Pia Duque Rengifo Top 15
  • Miss Photogenic
  • Best National Costume
1984 Silvia Maritza Yunda Charry Unplaced
1983 Marta Liliana Ruiz Orduz Top 15
1982 Adriana Rumié Gomes-Cásseres Top 15
1981 Victoria Eugenia Cárdenas Gerlein Top 15
1980 Ana Maria Uribe Giraldo Unplaced
1979 Ivonne Margarita Guerra de la Espriella Unplaced
1978 Olga Lucia Prada Rodríguez Unplaced
1977 Silvia Alicia Pombo Carrillo Unplaced
1976 Alicia Sáenz Madrid Top 15
1975 Alina Maria Botero López Top 15
1974 Beatriz del Carmen Cajiao Velasco Top 15
1973 Tulia Inés Gómez Porras Top 15
1972 Lamia El Kouri Chaia Top 15
1971 Patricia Escobar Rodríguez Top 15
1970 Did not compete
1969 Laura Fabiola Pimiento Barrera Unplaced
1968 Rosario Barraza Villa Top 15
  • Best National Costume
1967 Marta Lucia Guzmán Perdomo Unplaced
1966 No contest
1965 Regina Salcedo Herrera Unplaced
1964 Leonor Duplat Sanjuán Unplaced
1963 Martha Ligia Restrepo González Top 15
1962 Sonia Heidman Gómez Unplaced
1961 Vilma Kohlgruber Duque Unplaced
1960 Stella Márquez Miss International 1960

Señorita Colombia – Charm International

Year Miss Charm Colombia Placement Special Award(s)
2024 Vanesa Velásquez TBA
2023 Juliana Habib Lorduy Top 6

Past franchises

Señorita Colombia – Universo

Main article: Miss Universe Colombia

The winner of Señorita Colombia represents her country at Miss Universe. On occasion, when the winner does not qualify (due to age) for either contest, a runner-up is sent. Since 2020, the election of Miss Universe Colombia took over the franchise of Miss Universe in Colombia.
Year Señorita Colombia Placement Special Award(s)
2019 Gabriela Tafur Náder Top 5
2018 Valeria Morales Delgado Unplaced
2017 Laura González 1st Runner-up
2016 Andrea Tovar 2nd Runner-up
2015 Ariadna Gutiérrez 1st Runner-up
2014 Paulina Vega Miss Universe 2014
2013 Lucia Aldana Unplaced
2012 Daniella Álvarez Unplaced
2011 Catalina Robayo Top 16
2010 Natalia Navarro 12th
2009 Michelle Rouillard Unplaced
2008 Taliana Vargas 1st Runner-up
2007 Eileen Roca Torralvo Unplaced
2006 Valerie Domínguez Tarud Top 10
2005 Adriana Cecilia Tarud Durán Unplaced
2004 Catherine Daza Manchola Top 10
2003 Diana Lucia Mantilla Prada Unplaced
2002 Vanessa Alexandra Mendoza Bustos Unplaced
  • Best National Costume
2001 Andrea Nocetti Unplaced
2000 Catalina Inés Acosta Albarracín 6th
1999 Marianella Maal Pacini Unplaced
1998 Silvia Fernanda Ortiz Guerra 5th
1997 Claudia Elena Vásquez Unplaced
  • Best National Costume
1996 Lina Maria Gaviria Forero Unplaced
1995 Tatiana Leonor Castro Abuchaibe 10th
1994 Carolina Gomez Correa 1st Runner-up
1993 Paula Andrea Betancur 1st Runner-up
1992 Paola Turbay 1st Runner-up
1991 Maribel Judith Gutiérrez Tinoco Unplaced
  • Best National Costume
1990 Lizeth Yamile Mahecha Arévalo 2nd Runner-up
  • Best National Costume
1989 Maria Teresa Egurrola Hinojosa Unplaced
1988 Diana Patricia Arévalo Guerra 9th
1987 Maria Patricia López Ruiz Unplaced
  • Miss Photogenic
1986 Maria Mónica Urbina Pugliesse 2nd Runner-up
1985 Sandra Eugenia Borda Caldas Unplaced
  • Best National Costume
1984 Susana Caldas Lemaitre 4th Runner-up
1983 Julie Pauline Sáenz Starnes Unplaced
1982 Nadya Santacruz Quintero Unplaced
1981 Ana Edilma Cano Puerta Unplaced
1980 Maria Patricia Arbeláez Peláez 10th
1979 Ana Milena Parra Turbay Unplaced
1978 Mary Shirley Sáenz Starnes 3rd Runner-up
1977 Aura Maria Mojica Salcedo 3rd Runner-up
1976 Maria Helena Reyes Abisambra Top 12
1975 Marta Lucía Echeverri Trujillo Top 12
  • Miss Photogenic
1974 Ella Cecilia Escandón Palacios 3rd Runner-up
1973 Ana Lucía Agudelo Correa Top 12
1972 Maria Luisa Lignarolo Martínez-Aparicio Unplaced
1971 Piedad Mejía Trujillo Unplaced
1970 Maria Luisa Riascos Velásquez Unplaced
1969 Margarita Maria Reyes Zawadsky Top 15
  • Best in Swimsuit
1968 Luz Elena Restrepo González Unplaced
  • Best National Costume
1967 Elsa Maria Garrido Cajiao Unplaced
1966 Edna Margarita Rudd Lucena Top 15
1965 Maria Victoria Ocampo Gómez Top 15
1964 Alba Virginia Ramírez Plaza Unplaced
1963 Maria Cristina Alvarez González Top 15
1962 Olga Lucia Botero Orozco Top 15
1961 Patricia Whitman Owen Unplaced
1960 Stella Araneta Top 15
1959 Olga Beatriz Pumarejo Korkor Top 15
1958 Luz Marina Zuluaga Miss Universe 1958

Señorita Colombia – Mundo

From 1968 to 1990, the National Beauty Contest of Colombia organization were the license holders, and the Colombian representative to Miss World. Began 1991 the election of Miss Mundo Colombia organization took over the franchise of Miss World in Colombia.
Year Miss World Colombia Placement Special Award(s)
1991 Adriana Rodriguez Anzola Unplaced
1990 Ángela Mercedes Mariño Ortiz Unplaced
1989 Mónica María Isaza Mejía 2nd Runner-up
1988 Jazmín Oliveros Segura Unplaced
1987 Claudia Mercedes Escobar Zapata 4th Runner-up
1986 Karen Sue Wightman Corredor Top 15
1985 Margarita Rosa de Francisco Baquero Unplaced
1984 Patricia Janiot Top 15
1983 Rocío Isabel Luna Flórez 1st Runner-up
  • Miss World Americas
1982 María Teresa Gómez Fajardo Unplaced
1981 Nini Johanna Soto González 1st Runner-up
1980 María Cristina Valencia Cardona Unplaced
1979 Rosaura Mercedes Rodríguez Covo Unplaced
1978 Denise de Castro Santiago Unplaced
1977 María Clara O'Byrne Aycardi Unplaced
1976 María Loretta Celedón Holguín Unplaced
1975 Amanda Amaya Correa Unplaced
1974 Luz Maria Osorio Fernández Unplaced
1973 Elsa María Springtube Ramírez Unplaced
Did not compete between 1971—1972
1970 Carmelina Bayona Vera Unplaced
1969 Lina Maria Garcia Ogliastri Unplaced
1968 Beatriz Eutiquia Sierra Gonzalez 3rd Runner-up
1967 Did not compete
1966 María Estelia Sáenz Calero Withdrew
1965 Nubia Angelina Bustillo Gallo Unplaced
1964 Paulina Vargas Gilede Unplaced
1963 Maria Eugenia Cucalón Venegas Top 14

Señorita Colombia – Supranacional

From 2010 to 2016 the Miss Earth Colombia organization were the license holders, and the Colombian representative to Miss Supranational. In 2017, Señorita Colombia was in charge of selecting the Colombian representative for Miss Supranational until 2023. In 2022, The winner of Señorita Colombia represents her country at Miss Supranational.
Year Miss Supranational Colombia Placement Special Award(s)
2023 Valentina Mora Top 24
  • Supra Model of the Americas
2022 Valentina Espinosa Guzmán[4] Top 12
  • Miss Supranational Americas
  • Supra Model of the Americas
  • Miss Supra Influencer (Top 42)
2021 Valentina Aldana Unplaced
2019 Yaiselle Tous Top 10
  • Supra Model of the Americas
2018 Miriam Isabel Carranza de Moya Top 25
2017 Martha Luz "Tica" Martínez Insignares 1st Runner-up

Señorita Colombia – Grand International

Main article: Miss Grand Colombia

Year Miss Grand International Colombia Placement Special Award(s)
2021 Mariana Jaramillo Córdoba Top 20
2018 Sheyla Quizena Nieto Unplaced

Controversies

David Letterman on Miss Colombia

In May 2001, David Letterman joked about the 'special talent' which the then-reigning Miss Colombia Andrea Noceti possessed – that she was able to "swallow 50 balloons full of heroin" for the (non-existent) talent competition in the Miss Universe 2001 pageant. The remark not only infuriated the beauty queen, but also the people in Colombia.[5]

Miss Colombia openly threatened to sue Letterman but later withdrawn the statement after Letterman formally apologised to her in the Late Show with David Letterman about the quip made. Letterman had invited the beauty queen to appear on his show as a gesture of appeasement.[6]

Sponsors

Some of the Miss Colombia Beauty Contest include jewelries like Joyeria Casareo and André Laurent Joyeria, media companies like RCN TV and Cromos Magazine and beauty companies like Jolie de Vogue and Leonisa.[7]

See also

References and footnotes

  1. ^ Gaitán, Por Iván (11 November 2024). "Quién es Catalina Duque Abreu, representante de Antioquia y nueva Señorita Colombia". infobae (in European Spanish). Retrieved 13 November 2024.
  2. ^ "Catalina Duque Abreu es la nueva Señorita Colombia 2024; deslumbró en el Concurso Nacional de Belleza". Publimetro (in Spanish). 10 November 2024. Retrieved 11 November 2024.
  3. ^ Noticias, Quindío (30 April 2022). "La quindiana, Natalia López, representará a Colombia en Miss International 2022". Quindío Noticias (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 6 December 2022. Retrieved 4 December 2022.
  4. ^ "Miss Colombia 2021: choice of Valentina Espinosa, Miss Bolívar – Entertainment – Culture". remonews.com. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
  5. ^ Miss Colombia to sue Letterman
  6. ^ Letterman appeases Miss Colombia
  7. ^ "Concurso Nacional de Belleza ® – Quiénes somos". srtacolombia.org. Retrieved 15 November 2016.