Formation | 2013 |
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Type | Beauty pageant |
Headquarters | Guayaquil |
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Official language | Spanish |
President(s) | Tahiz Panus, Miguel Panus |
Concurso Nacional de Belleza Ecuador is a national beauty pageant held annually in Ecuador. Initially, the contest was named Miss World Ecuador in 2013 up to 2020 when it was renamed Consurso Nacional de Belleza Ecuador. The winner is the Miss World Ecuador and is the national representative at Miss World in the year she has been chosen, except in 2020 due to COVID-19 pandemic.
The very first winner elected by Miss World Ecuador organization was Laritza Párraga from Santo Domimgo province through 2013. Although Miss World Ecuador organization has the rights to send a delegate to Miss World, Ecuador has been competing at Miss World since 1960 under the Miss Ecuador beauty pageant, which had the rights until 2012. After Miss Ecuador Organization lost the franchise to Miss World, Julián Pico acquired the rights to send a contestant to the international pageant through the national pageant Miss World Ecuador, starting in 2013.
Representatives from the 24 provinces that make up Ecuador compete annually for the national title of Miss World Ecuador among others such as Miss Supranational Ecuador and Miss Grand Ecuador. Furthermore, the organization sent the Ecuadorian's delegate to Miss World Cup 2014 where it placed 2nd Runner-up with the participation of Laritza Párraga. [1]
Winners of Miss World Ecuador under Tahiz & Miguel Panus direction from 2017.
Year | Hometown | Miss World Ecuador | Placement | Special Award(s) | |
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2025 | Santo Domingo | Sandra Mariela Alvarado Cobeña [2] | TBA | TBA | |
2024 | No competition held | ||||
2023 | Salinas | Annie Cecilia Zambrano Campoverde [3] | Unplaced | ||
2022 | Miss World 2021 was rescheduled to 16 March 2022 due to the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak in Puerto Rico, no edition started in 2022 | ||||
2021 | Guayaquil | Ámar Silvana Pacheco Ibarra [4] | Top 40 |
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2020 | Due to the impact of COVID-19 pandemic, no pageant in 2020 | ||||
2019 | Guayaquil | María Auxiliadora Idrovo Quintana | Unplaced |
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2018 | Pimampiro | Shirley Nicol Ocles Congo | Unplaced | ||
2017 | Guayaquil | Romina Zeballos Avellán | Unplaced | ||
2016 | Machala | Mirka Paola Cabrera Mazzini | Unplaced |
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2015 | Chone | Maria Camila Marañón Solórzano | Top 21 |
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2014 | Portoviejo | Virginia Stephanie Limongi Silva | Unplaced |
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2013 | Santo Domingo | Laritza Libeth Párraga Arteaga | Unplaced |
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Year | Hometown | Miss Ecuador Mundo | Placement at Miss World | Special Awards | |
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2012 | Esmeraldas | Cipriana Denisse Correia Macías | Unplaced | ||
2011 | Guayaquil | María Verónica Vargas Granja | Unplaced |
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2010 | Ambato | Ana Mercedes Galarza Añazco | Unplaced | ||
2009 | Esmeraldas | María Gabriela Ulloa Quiñones | Unplaced | ||
2008 | Guayaquil | Marjorie Alexandra Cevallos Vera | Unplaced | ||
2007 | Guayaquil | Valeska Alexandra Saab Gómez | Top 16 | ||
2006 | Cuenca | María Rebeca Flores Jaramillo | Unplaced | ||
2005 | Guayaquil | Marielisa Márques Gutiérrez | Unplaced | ||
2004 | Guayaquil | Cristina Eugenia Reyes Hidalgo | Unplaced |
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2003 | Esmeraldas | Mayra Katty Rentería Matamba | Unplaced | ||
2002 | Santo Domingo | Jéssica Leonela Angulo Miranda [^] | Unplaced | ||
2001 | Quito | Carla Lorena Revelo Pérez | Unplaced | ||
2000 | Portoviejo | Ana Dolores Murillo Sánchez | Unplaced | ||
1999 | Manta | Sofía Morán Trueba | Unplaced | ||
1998 | Guayaquil | Vanessa Natalia Graf Alvear | Unplaced | ||
1997 | Esmeraldas | Clío Olaya Frías | Unplaced | ||
1996 | Guayaquil | Jennifer Lynn Graham Dumani | Unplaced | ||
1995 | Guayaquil | Ana Fabiola Trujillo Parker | Unplaced | ||
1994 | Guayaquil | Diana Margarita Noboa Gordon | Unplaced | ||
1993 | Guayaquil | Danna Saab Saab | Unplaced | ||
1992 | Guayaquil | Stephanie Krumholz De Menezes | Unplaced | ||
1991 | Guayaquil | Suanny Denise Bejarano López | Unplaced | ||
1990 | Did not compete | ||||
1989 | Machala | Ximena Paulett Correa Jarre | Unplaced | ||
1988 | Guayaquil | Cristina Elena López Villagómez | Unplaced | ||
1987 | Guayaquil | Cecilia Pozo Caminer | Place 15 | ||
1986 | Guayaquil | Alicia Gisela Cucalón Macías | 6th Runner-up | Most Beautiful Hair | |
1985 | Quito | María del Pilar De Veintemilla Russo | Unplaced | ||
1984 | Azuay | María Sol Corral Zambrano | Unplaced | ||
1983 | Guayaquil | Martha Lascano Salcedo | Unplaced | ||
1982 | Guayaquil | Gianna Machiavello González | Unplaced | ||
1981 | Guayaquil | Lucía Isabel Vinueza Urjelles | Unplaced | ||
1980 | Guayaquil | Gabriela María Catelina Ríos Roca | Unplaced | ||
1979 | Guayaquil | Olba Lourdes Padilla Guevara | Unplaced | ||
1978 | Guayaquil | Antonieta Cecilia Campodónico Aguirre | Unplaced | ||
1977 | Chone | Lucía del Carmen Hernández Quiñonez | Unplaced | ||
1976 | Guayaquil | Marie Clare Fontaine Velasco | Unplaced | ||
1975 | Did not compete | ||||
1974 | Playas | Silvia Aurora Jurado Estrada | Unplaced | ||
1973 | Did not compete | ||||
1972 | Quito | Patricia Falconí Salas | Unplaced | ||
1971 | Guayaquil | María Cecilia Gómez Buenaventura | Unplaced | ||
1970 | Guayaquil | Sofía Virginia Monteverde Nimbriotis | Top 15 | Miss Congeniality | |
1969 | Quito | Ximena Lourdes Aulestia Díaz | Unplaced | ||
1968 | Guayaquil | Marcia Virginia Ramos Christiansen | Unplaced | ||
1967 | Guayaquil | Laura Elena Baquero Palacios | Unplaced | ||
1966 | Guayaquil | Alexandra Vallejo Klaere | Unplaced | ||
1965 | Quito | Corine Mildred Corral | Unplaced | ||
1964 | Guayaquil | María de Lourdes Anda Vallejo | Unplaced | ||
1963 | Did not compete | ||||
1962 | Guayaquil | Elaine Ortega Hougen | Unplaced | ||
1961 | Quito | Magdalena Dávila González | Unplaced | ||
1960 | Guayaquil | María Rosa Rodríguez Váscones | Unplaced | ||
Provinces | Titles | Years |
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Guayaquil | 31 | 1960, 1962, 1964, 1966, 1968, 1970, 1971, 1974, 1976, 1878, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1998, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2011, 2017, 2019, 2020 |
Pichincha | 8 | 1961, 1965, 1967, 1969, 1972, 1985, 2001, 2002 |
Manabí | 5 | 1977, 1999, 2000, 2014, 2015 |
Esmeraldas | 4 | 1997, 2003, 2009, 2012 |
Azuay | 2 | 1984, 2006 |
El Oro | 1989, 2016 | |
Santo Domingo | 2013, 2023 | |
Imbabura | 1 | 2018 |
Santa Elena | 2022 | |
Tungurahua | 2010 |
Year | Hometown | Miss Ecuador Supranational | Placement at Miss Supranational | Special Awards |
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2024 | Quito | Doménica Angelina Alessi Vega [5] | TBA | |
2023 | Ventanas | Andrea Victoria Aguilera Paredes | Miss Supranational 2023 [6] | |
2022 | Guayaquil | Valery Romina Carabalí Medina [7] | Top 24 | |
2021 | Guayaquil | Justeen Amberth Cruz Lara [8] | Top 24 | |
No pageant was held in 2020 due to COVID-19 pandemic | ||||
2019 | Manta | María Fernanda Yépez Montesdeoca | Unplaced | |
2018 | Guayaquil | Carla Daniela Pardo Thoret | Unplaced |
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