Miss Grand Colombia

For the most recent edition, see Miss Grand Colombia 2024.

Miss Grand Colombia is an annual female beauty pageant in Colombia, founded in 2018 by Top 3 Latam chaired by Neyder Duarte.^[1][2] Previously, the country representatives were selected by the International Portfolio Agency headed by Elías Tobón and Mara Borrego, either by handpicking or through their national pageant, Miss Earth Colombia. Currently, the franchise belongs to the Bogota-based modeling agency, Casa De Reinas SAS which owns and runs the Miss Grand Colombia beauty contest since 2022.^[3]

Miss Grand Colombia

Established	11 February 2018; 7 years ago (2018-02-11)
Founder	Neyder Duarte
Type	Beauty pageant
Headquarters	Bogotá
Location	Colombia
Membership	Miss Grand International
Official language	Spanish
Directors	Omar Iglesias Frank Fernandez
Parent organization	Belleza Colombia International S.A.S.

Miss Grand Colombia licensees timeline
2014 — – 2016 — – 2018 — – 2020 — – 2022 — – 2024 — – 2026 —	Agencia Portfolio International Top 3 Latam CNB Colombia Luis Garcés Juan Jose Mendoza CNB Colombia César Prado Casa De Reinas S.A.S. Belleza Colombia International S.A.S.
Stand-alone pageant   Appointed titleholder   No licensee/titleholder

Colombia holds a record of 6 placements at Miss Grand International, The highest one was the second runner-up, won by María Alejandra López in 2023.^[4][5] The reigning Miss Grand Colombia is Denisse Cuadrado who was crowned on 5 August 2024 at the Hotel Hilton in Cartagena, She will represent Colombia at Miss Grand International 2024 in Thailand/Cambodia.^[6][7]

History

Colombia has been taking part in the Miss Grand International since 2013. However, most of its representatives were assigned to participate without organizing the national preliminary contest specifically. In 2018, the first edition of Miss Grand Colombia was conducted in Villeta of Cundinamarca Department at the BH Tempo Hotel on 11 February after Miss Earth Colombia, who served as the national licensee during 2013 – 2017, had lost the franchise to Top 3 Latam – the Cundinamarca-based pageant organizer, headed by Neyder Duarte.^[1] The contest featured 5 national finalists representing 5 national regions, including Altiplano, Andean, Llanos, Orinoquía, and Sinú,^[1] of which Génesis Andrea Quintero Pérez from Orinoquía was announced the winner and expected to compete in Myanmar for the international title,^[8][9][10] but unfortunately forced to resign by the organizer due to health problems after having breast augmentation as well as the financial conflict between them.^[9][11] The organizer then relinquished the franchise to the Concurso Nacional de Belleza de Colombia (CNB Colombia; Miss Colombia), who appointed Sheyla Quizena Nieto to compete at the said platform instead.^[12][13] Nevertheless, Quintero was later assigned to participate in the following international edition in Venezuela by the 2019 national licensee – Luis Humberto Garcés, as the replacement of the former representative, Sthefany Rodríguez, the Colombian-Venezuelan model who resigned the title two months after the appointment;^[14] and was placed among the top 20 finalists.^[15] Since then, the license had been being transferred to the different organizers every year, including Juan José Mendoza in 2020,^[16] back to Miss Colombia in 2021,^[17] and under the control of César Prado in 2022.^[3]

The representatives of Colombia got placements at Miss Grand International six times in 2013, 2014, 2019, 2021, 2022 and 2023.^{[18][19][5][15][20]}

Editions

Location and date

The following list is the edition detail of the Miss Grand Colombia contest, since its inception in 2018.

Edition	Date	Final venue	Entrants	Ref.
1st	11 February 2018	BH Tempo Hotel, Villeta, Cundinamarca	5	[1][8]
2nd	25 June 2022	Hotel Grand Park, Bogotá D.C	21	[3][21]
3rd	18 June 2023	Mayor Auditorium CUN, Bogotá D.C	23	[22][23]
4th	4 August 2024	CCCI convention center, Cartagena, Bolívar	20	[24][25]

Competition result

Edition	Winner	Runners-up		Ref.
		First	Second
1st	Génesis Quintero (Orinoquía)	Not awarded		[1][8]
2nd	Priscilla Londoño (COL. in the US)	Maria Antonia Ruiz (Antioquia)	Luisa González (Valle del Cauca)	[3][21]
3rd	María Alejandra López (Eje Cafetero)	Yuri Rey (Meta)	Valentina Cárdenas (Zona Andina)	[22][23]
4th	Dennise Cuadrado (Antioquia)	Luisa Valentina (Cauca)	Lina Zambrano (Atlántico)	[24][25]

International competition

The following is a list of Colombian representatives at the Miss Grand International contest.

Color keys

•   : Declared as the winner
•   : Ended as a runner-up (Top 5)
•   : Ended as a finalist (Top 10)
•   : Ended as a semifinalist (Top 20/21)
•   : Ended as special awards winner

Year	Department	Miss Grand Colombia	Title	Placement	Special Awards	National Director
2025	Bogotá	Laura Ramos[26]	Appointed	TBA		Frank Fernandez
2024	Norte de Santander	Angelica Valero[27]	3rd runner-up Miss Grand Colombia 2024	5th Runner Up
	Antioquia	Dennise Cuadrado[28]	Miss Grand Colombia 2024	Resigned
2023	Risaralda	María Alejandra López[29][30]	Miss Grand Colombia 2023	2nd runner-up		César Prado
2022	Texas, United States	Priscilla Londoño[31]	Miss Grand Colombia 2022	5th runner-up
2021	Atlántico	Mariana Jaramillo[20]	3rd runner-up Señorita Colombia 2019	Top 20		Raimundo Ángulo
2020	Norte de Santander	Natalia Manrique[32]	Top 10 Señorita Colombia 2019	Unplaced		Juan José Mendoza
2019	Arauca	Génesis Quintero[15]	Miss Grand Colombia 2018	Top 20		Luis Humberto Garcés
	Atlántico	Sthefani Rodríguez[33]	Appointed	Did not compete
2018	Atlántico	Sheyla Quizena[12][13]	4th runner-up Señorita Atlántico 2018	Unplaced		Raimundo Ángulo
	Arauca	Génesis Quintero[9][11]	Miss Grand Colombia 2018	Did not compete		Neyder Duarte
2017	Cauca	Francy Castaño[34]	Appointed	Unplaced		Elías Tobón
2016	Cauca	Juliana Florez[35]	Miss Fire – Miss Earth Colombia 2016	Unplaced
2015	Chocó	Gisella Correa[36][37]	1st runner-up Miss Earth Colombia 2015	Unplaced
2014	Valle del Cauca	Mónica Castaño[5]	Appointed	4th runner-up
2013	Valle del Cauca	Carolina Betancourth[19]	Appointed	Top 20

National pageant candidates

Participating department and regional representatives

Representatives	1st	2nd	3rd	4th
Departments
Amazonas		No Province title (Contestants Finalists)	Y
Antioquia			12
Arauca				Y
Atlántico
Bogotá (Capital District)			Y
Bolívar			12	Y
Boyacá
Caldas				Y
Caquetá
Casanare
Cauca			Y
Cesar			Y
Chocó				Y
Córdoba
Cundinamarca			12	Y
Guainía
Guaviare
Huila
La Guajira				Y
Magdalena				Y
Meta				Y
Nariño			Y
Norte de Santander
Putumayo
Quindío			Y
Risaralda			6
San Andrés y Providencia
Santander			Y	Y
Sucre
Tolima				Y
Valle del Cauca			Y
Vaupés
Vichada
Regions and territories
Altiplano	Y	No Province title (Contestants Finalists)
Andean (Zona Andina)	Y
Armenia			12
Barranquilla			Y	Y
Bucaramanga			12	Y
Cali			Y
Cartagena				Y
Colombian communities in Chile			Y
Colombian communities in Europe			12
Colombian communities in Miami			Y
Colombian communities in Panama			6
Colombian communities in Washington, D.C.			6
Cúcuta
Eje Cafetero
Llanos	Y
Medellín			Y
Orinoquía
Región Caribe
Sinú	Y
Total	5	21	23	20
Color keys    : Declared as the winner    : Ended as a 1st runner-up    : Ended as a 2nd runner-up    : Ended as a 3rd runner-up    : Ended as a 4th runner-up    : Ended as a 5th runner-up    : Ended as a 6th runner-up  A  : Ended as a finalist, semifinalist and unplaced  ×  : Ended as withdrew during the competition  ×  : Ended as no representative

Winner gallery

• 
  Miss Grand Colombia 2024
  Angelica Valero
• 
  Miss Grand Colombia 2023
  María Alejandra López
• 
  Miss Grand Colombia 2022
  Priscilla Londoño
• 
  Miss Grand Colombia 2021
  Mariana Jaramillo
• 
  Miss Grand Colombia 2015
  Gisella Correa
• 
  Miss Grand Colombia 2014
  Mónica Castaño

See also

• Miss Grand International
• Miss Colombia
• Miss Universe Colombia
• Miss Mundo Colombia
• Miss Earth Colombia