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Formation | 26 June 2021 (As Miss Grand Ecuador pageant) |
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Founder | Tahiz Panuz |
Type | Beauty pageant |
Headquarters | Guayaquil |
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Membership | Miss Grand International |
Official language | Spanish |
National Director |
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Parent organization | Concurso Nacional de Belleza Ecuador (2019 – present) |
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2014 — – 2016 — – 2018 — – 2020 — – 2022 — – 2024 — – 2026 — | Miss Ecuador Organization | |||||||||
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Miss Grand Ecuador is an Ecuadorian female national beauty pageant launched in 2021 by the Concurso Nacional de Belleza Ecuador (CNB Ecuador) organization, directed by Tahiz Panus and Miguel Panus, [1] with the aim of selecting a country representative to participate in its parent pageant, Miss Grand International. [1] [2] [3] Previously, the competition franchise belonged to Maria del Carmen Aguayo, who usually chose the runners-up or national finalists from her national pageant, Miss Ecuador, to partake in such an international competition. [4] [5] [6] [7]
Ecuador has three Miss Grand International placements; the highest is first runner-up, achieved by Andrea Aguilera in 2021, [8] followed by Mara Topi's Top 10 finalists in 2019. [9]
Ecuador made its Miss Grand International debut in 2013, when Alexandra Zulay Castillo Velasco, the national finalist of Miss Ecuador 2012, was named one of the top 20 finalists. [10] From 2013 to 2018, the Ecuadorian franchise belonged to the Miss Ecuador organization, with one of the pageant finalists being appointed as Miss Grand Ecuador. [4] [5] [6] [7] However, only one of them qualified for the top 20 finalists on the international stage; the rest were unplaced. [11] Later in 2019, Ecuador broke the record of non-placement after the new franchisee, the Concurso Nacional de Belleza Ecuador (CNB Ecuador), appointed a 24-year-old actress from Guayaquil, Mara Topic Verduga, to join the international contest in Venezuela, [12] [13] [14] where she was ranked among the top 10 finalists as well as obtained the Best in National Costume award. [15] [9]
Tahiz Panus and Miguel Panus, the presidents of the CNB Ecuador, have been serving as the national directors of Miss Grand Ecuador since 2019. [16] Under their leadership, the first edition of Miss Grand Ecuador happened on June 26, 2021, at the TC Televisión studios in the city of Guayaquil. [1] [2] The contest featured six national finalists from six provinces, including Cañar, El Oro, Esmeraldas, Los Ríos, Manabí, and Pichincha, [3] of whom Andrea Aguilera from Los Ríos Province was elected the winner. [1] [2] [3] Aguilera had later participated at Miss Grand International 2021 in Thailand and was awarded the first runner-up, the highest placement of Ecuador at such the international contest since 2013. [1] [2] [3] Previously, Aguilera competed in the Miss Earth Ecuador 2019 pageant but did not win the main title. [1] [2]
However, no pageant was held to determine the titleholder in 2022; the first runner-up of the previous edition, Emilia Vásquez of Pichincha Province, was appointed to the position and expected to represent the country at Miss Grand International 2022 in Indonesia, [17] but was later replaced by Liseth Naranjo for undisclosed reasons. [18] Naranjo was a former Miss Grand Ecuador 2020 but was dethroned before competing on the international stage. [19]
The Miss Grand Ecuador pageant was separately held once in 2021, [1] [2] [3] and the upcoming edition is scheduled to be held in 2023. [20]
Edition | Date | Final venue | Host province | Entrants | Ref. |
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1st | 26 June 2021 | TC Televisión Studios, Guayaquil | Guayas | 6 | [1] [2] [3] |
2nd | 15 April 2023 | 7 | [21] [22] |
Edition | Winner | Runners-up | Ref. | |
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First | Second | |||
1st | Andrea Aguilera (Los Ríos) | Emilia Vásquez (Pichincha) | Marjorie Vivas (Manabí) | [1] [2] [3] |
2nd | Véronique Michielsen (Ecuadorian commu. in Europe) | Andrea Ojeda (Guayaquil) | Alyson Flores (Santo Domingo) | [21] [22] |
The following is a list of Ecuadorian representatives at the Miss Grand International contest.
Year | Province | Miss Grand Ecuador | Title | Placement [23] | Special Awards | National Director |
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2025 | Pichincha | Samantha Quenedit [24] | CNB Ecuador 2025 – Miss Grand Ecuador | TBA | Tahiz Panuz | |
2024 | Los Ríos | María José Vera [25] | CNB Ecuador 2023 – Virreina Miss World Ecuador [26] | Unplaced [27] | Best National Costume | |
2023 | Antwerp, Belgium | Véronique Michielsen [22] [28] | Miss Grand Ecuador 2023 | Did not compete | ||
Guayas | Andrea Ojeda [28] | 1st runner-up Miss Grand Ecuador 2023 | Unplaced [29] | |||
2022 | Pichincha | Emilia Vásquez [17] [18] | 1st runner-up Miss Grand Ecuador 2021 | Did not compete | ||
Guayas | Lisseth Naranjo [30] | CNB Ecuador 2020 – Grand International | Unplaced [31] | |||
2021 | Los Ríos | Andrea Aguilera [8] | Miss Grand Ecuador 2021 | 1st runner-up [32] | ||
2020 | Guayas | Lisseth Naranjo [33] [34] | CNB Ecuador 2020 – Grand International | Did not compete | ||
Guayas | Sonia Luna [34] | 1st runner-up Miss Ecuador 2019 | Unplaced [35] | |||
2019 | Guayas | Mara Topić [36] | Appointed | Top 10 [9] | Best National Costume | |
2018 | El Oro | Norma Tejada [7] [37] | 2nd runner-up Miss Ecuador 2018 | Did not compete | María del Carmen Aguayo | |
Guayas | Blanca Arambulo [37] | 3rd runner-up Miss Ecuador 2018 | Unplaced [38] | |||
2017 | Imbabura | María José Villacís [6] [39] | 2nd runner-up Miss Ecuador 2017 | Did not compete | ||
Pichincha | Analía Vernaza [39] | Appointed | Unplaced [40] | |||
2016 | Guayas | Carmen Iglesias [5] | 3rd runner-up Miss Ecuador 2016 | Unplaced [41] | ||
2015 | Guayas | María Emilia Cevallos [4] | 2nd runner-up Miss Ecuador 2015 | Did not compete | ||
2014 | Guayas | Irene Lucia Zabala [42] | Appointed | Unplaced | ||
2013 | Esmeraldas | Alexandra Castillo [43] | Appointed | Top 20 |
Representatives | 1st | 2nd | ||||||
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Azuay | ||||||||
Bolívar | ||||||||
Cañar | Y | |||||||
Carchi | ||||||||
Chimborazo | ||||||||
Cotopaxi | ||||||||
El Oro | Y | Y | ||||||
Esmeraldas | Y | Y | ||||||
Galápagos | ||||||||
Guayas | ||||||||
Imbabura | ||||||||
Loja | ||||||||
Los Ríos | ![]() | |||||||
Manabí | ![]() | Y | ||||||
Morona Santiago | ||||||||
Napo | ||||||||
Orellana | ||||||||
Pastaza | ||||||||
Pichincha | ![]() | |||||||
Santa Elena | ||||||||
Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas | ![]() | |||||||
Sucumbíos | ||||||||
Tungurahua | ||||||||
Zamora Chinchipe | ||||||||
No affiliated province | ||||||||
Ecuadorian communities in Europe | ![]() | |||||||
Ecuadorian communities in USA | Y | |||||||
Guayaquil | ![]() | |||||||
Total | 6 | 7 | ||||||
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