Miss Nicaragua

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Miss Nicaragua
FormationMarch 12, 1955; 68 years ago (1955-03-12)
TypeBeauty pageant
HeadquartersManagua
Location
Membership
Official language
Spanish
Miss Nicaragua 2023
Sheynnis Palacios
Parent organization
Miss Universe
Websitewww.missnicaragua.com

The Miss Nicaragua or (Miss Universe Nicaragua) is an American beauty pageant that has been held annually since 1955 to select the entrant from Nicaragua in the Miss Universe and since 2023 to select the entrant to Miss Charm pageant. Until 2001 when the model agency Siluetas announces that the most important beauty pageant in the country will be operated by Karen Celebertti.

The current Miss Nicaragua is Sheynnis Palacios of Diriamba, who was crowned on August 5, 2023, at the Crowne Plaza Hotel and Convention Center Managua in Managua, Nicaragua. She was also crowned as Miss Universe on November 18, 2023 at the Gimnasio Nacional at San Salvador, El Salvador. This is Nicaragua’s first victory in the 72 year history of the pageant.

Participants[edit]

Cristiana Frixione at the Miss Nicaragua 2007 contest held in the Rubén Darío National Theater in Managua on March 17, 2007

Participants for the Miss Nicaragua contest must be at least 18. After participants are chosen, between 8 and 17 candidates are elected and represent a city or department. The majority of Miss Nicaragua winners have been from Managua.

Since 2023 the Miss Nicaragua pageant allow women married and mothers to join in the competition.

As well the transgender women are able to complete however since there is not any government mandate about legalisation the candidates are not allowed to join the national pageant.

Titleholders[edit]

Color key
  •   Declared as winner
  •   Ended as runner-up
  •   Ended as top 5/8 qualification
  •   Ended as one of the finalists or semifinalists
  •   Ended as special awards winner
The winner of Miss Nicaragua 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.
Year Department Miss Nicaragua Placement at Miss Universe Notes
1955 Rosa Argentina Lacayo  Managua
  • Best Dressed Girl
1963 Leda Sánchez  Carazo
1968 Margine Davidson Morales  Matagalpa
1969 Soraya Herrera Chávez  Managua
1970 Xiomara Paguaga Rodríguez  Managua
1973 Ana Cecilia Saravia Lanzas  León
1974 Francys Duarte  León
1975 Aida Maritza Sánchez  Masaya
1976 Ivania Navarro Genie  Matagalpa
1977 Beatriz Obregón  Rivas Top 12
1978 Claudia Herrera Cortez  Masaya
1979 Patricia Pineda Chamorro  Rivas Did not compete
1991 Ana Sofía Pereira  Managua
1992 Ida Patricia Delaney  Managua
1993 Luisa Amalia Urcuyo Lacayo  Rivas
1995 Linda Clerk Castillo  Managua
1996 Luz María Herdocia  Managua Did not compete
1998 Claudia Alaniz  Managua
1999 Liliana Pilarte  Río San Juan
2001 Ligia Cristina Argüello Roa  Managua
2002 Marianela Lacayo  Managua
2003 Claudia Salmerón  Managua
2004 Marifely Argüello César  Managua
2005 Daniela Clerk Castillo  Managua
2006 Cristiana Frixione  Managua
2007 Xiomara Blandino  Managua Top 10
2008 Thelma Rodríguez  Chinandega
2009 Indiana Sánchez  Managua
  • 2nd place in the Best National Costume
2010 Scharllette Allen  South Caribbean Coast Autonomous Region
2011 Adriana Dorn  Managua
2012 Farah Eslaquit  Masaya
  • 6th place in the Best National Costume
2013 Nastassja Bolívar  Carazo Top 16
  • Best National Costume
2014 Marline Barberena  Chinandega
2015 Daniela Torres  Managua
  • 4th place in the Best National Costume
2016 Marina Jacoby  Matagalpa
2017 Berenice Quezada  South Caribbean Coast Autonomous Region
2018 Adriana Paniagua[1]  Chinandega
2019 Inés López  Managua
2020 Ana Marcelo  Estelí Top 21
2021 Allison Wassmer  Managua
  • 2nd place in the Best National Costume
2022 Norma Huembes[2]  Carazo
2023 Sheynnis Palacios[3]  Carazo Miss Universe 2023 Previously Miss Mundo Nicaragua 2020
2024 TBA

Regional rankings[edit]

Department Titles Years
 Managua 20
  • 1955
  • 1969
  • 1971
  • 1991
  • 1992
  • 1995
  • 1996
  • 1998
  • 2001
  • 2002
  • 2003
  • 2004
  • 2005
  • 2006
  • 2007
  • 2009
  • 2011
  • 2015
  • 2019
  • 2021
 Carazo 4
  • 1963
  • 2013
  • 2022
  • 2023
 León
  • 1960
  • 1970
  • 1973
  • 1974
 Chinandega 3
  • 2008
  • 2014
  • 2018
 Matagalpa
  • 1968
  • 1976
  • 2016
 Masaya
  • 1975
  • 1978
  • 2012
 Rivas
  • 1977
  • 1979
  • 1993
 South Caribbean Coast Autonomous Region 2
  • 2010
  • 2017
 Estelí 1
  • 2020
 Río San Juan
  • 1999

Notes[edit]

Contestants[edit]

The runners-up and semi-finalists of the Miss Nicaragua pageant are sometimes sent to represent Nicaragua in other international beauty pageants. Winners include Sharon Amador, the first finalist in Miss Nicaragua 2006. Sharon won the Miss Ambar Mundial pageant in 2006. In 2010, the franchise for Miss Earth Nicaragua was awarded to Nuestra Belleza Nicaragua.[4] In 2023, Katherine Burgos Reyes, the first runner-up of Miss Nicaragua 2022 was appointed to compete at Miss Supranational 2023.

Dethroned[edit]

Miss Nicaragua 2013, Nastassja Bolívar was dethroned after competing at the Miss Universe 2013 in Moscow, Russia.[5]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Adriana Paniagua triunfa en Miss Nicaragua 2018". Archived from the original on March 25, 2018. Retrieved March 25, 2018.
  2. ^ "Quién es Norma Huembes, la joven que ha sido elegida Miss Nicaragua 2022". 20 minutos (in Spanish). August 7, 2022. Retrieved August 7, 2022.
  3. ^ "Las nuevas reinas latinas camino al certamen Miss Universo 2023" [The new Latin queens on their way to the Miss Universe 2023 pageant]. La Nación (in Spanish). August 7, 2023. Retrieved August 8, 2023.
  4. ^ Trejos, Tania (March 30, 2006). "Sharon Amador es Miss Ámbar 2006". La Prensa (in Spanish). Archived from the original on June 29, 2012. Retrieved May 30, 2007.
  5. ^ "After prolonged dispute, Miss Nicaragua 2013 loses her crown -". The Tico Times. Agence France-Presse. January 22, 2014. Retrieved October 12, 2020.

External links[edit]

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