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Type | Women's beauty pageant |
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Headquarters | Mexico City, Mexico |
Country represented | Nicaragua |
Qualifies for | Miss Universe |
First edition | 2024 |
Current titleholder | Geyssell García Chontales |
Stylist | Osmel Sousa |
CEO/President | Raúl Rocha |
National Director | Raúl Rocha |
Director of Communications | George Figueroa |
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Predecessor | Miss Nicaragua |
Website | https://www.instagram.com/missuniverse_nicaragua |
Miss Universe Nicaragua (MUNIC) is a beauty pageant and organization that selects the Nicaraguan's official representative to Miss Universe.
The reining Miss Universe Nicaragua 2024 is Geyssell García from Chontales, who was crowned on October 1, 2024, in Mexico City, Mexico by Sheynnis Palacios.
From 1955 to 2023, Miss Nicaragua held the national franchise for Miss Universe, wherein it was responsible for selecting Nicaraguans to represent Nicaragua and compete at the annual Miss Universe pageant. Under Miss Nicaragua, Nicaragua representatives to the Miss Universe pageant were crowned with the title of Señorita Nicaragua from 1955 to 1999, and Miss Nicaragua from 2001 to 2023.[ citation needed ]
In September 2024, the Miss Universe Organization introduced a new franchise under Miss Universe Nicaragua this is an organization outside Nicaragua since in November 2023 after Sheynnis Palacios, Miss Nicaragua 2023 won the Miss Universe 2023 held in San Salvador, El Salvador Ortega's government cancelled the pageant in Nicaragua and getting out national directors from the previous organization.[ citation needed ]
Year | Delegate | Age | State | Competition performance | |
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Placements | Special award(s) | ||||
2025 | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA | |
2024 | Geyssell García | 29 | Chontales | Top 30 |
Year | Delegate | Age | State | Competition performance | ||
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Placements | Special award(s) | |||||
2023 | Sheynnis Palacios | 23 | Carazo | Miss Universe 2023 | ||
2022 | Norma Huembes | 24 | Carazo | Unplaced | ||
2021 | Allison Wassmer | 26 | Managua | Unplaced | ||
2020 | Ana Marcelo | 24 | Estelí | Top 21 | ||
2019 | Inés López | 19 | Managua | Unplaced | ||
2018 | Adriana Paniagua | 23 | Chinandega | Unplaced | ||
2017 | Berenice Quezada | 24 | South Caribbean Coast Autonomous Region | Unplaced | ||
2016 | Marina Jacoby | 21 | Matagalpa | Unplaced | ||
2015 | Daniela Torres | 25 | Managua | Unplaced |
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2014 | Marline Barberena | 27 | Chinandega | Unplaced | ||
2013 | Nastassja Bolívar | 25 | Carazo | Top 16 |
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2012 | Farah Eslaquit | 21 | Masaya | Unplaced |
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2011 | Adriana Dorn | 24 | Managua | Unplaced | ||
2010 | Scharllette Allen | 18 | South Caribbean Coast Autonomous Region | Unplaced | ||
2009 | Indiana Sánchez | 22 | Managua | Unplaced |
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2008 | Thelma Rodríguez | 19 | Chinandega | Unplaced | ||
2007 | Xiomara Blandino | 22 | Managua | Top 10 | ||
2006 | Cristiana Frixione | 22 | Managua | Unplaced | ||
2005 | Daniela Clerk | 23 | Managua | Unplaced | ||
2004 | Marifely Argüello | 22 | Managua | Unplaced | ||
2003 | Claudia Salmerón | 25 | Managua | Unplaced | ||
2002 | Marianela Lacayo | 21 | Managua | Unplaced | ||
2001 | Ligia Argüello | 21 | Managua | Unplaced | ||
2000 | No competition held | |||||
1999 | Liliana Pilarte | 23 | Río San Juan | Unplaced | ||
1998 | Claudia Alaniz | 21 | Managua | Unplaced | ||
1997 | No competition held | |||||
1996 | Luz María Sánchez Herdocia | – | Managua | Did not compete | ||
1995 | Linda Clerk | 22 | Managua | Unplaced | ||
1994 | No competition held | |||||
1993 | Luisa Urcuyo | 18 | Rivas | Unplaced | ||
1992 | Ida Delaney | Managua | Unplaced | |||
1991 | Ana Sofía Pereira | Managua | Unplaced | |||
No competition held between 1980–1990 | ||||||
1979 | Patricia Pineda | – | Rivas | Withdrew from the competition | ||
1978 | Claudia Herrera | Masaya | Unplaced | |||
1977 | Beatriz Obregón | 18 | Rivas | Top 12 | ||
1976 | Ivania Navarro | Matagalpa | Unplaced | |||
1975 | Alda Maritza Sánchez | Masaya | Unplaced | |||
1974 | Francis Duarte | León | Unplaced | |||
1973 | Ana Saravia | 18 | Managua | Unplaced | ||
1972 | No competition held | |||||
1971 | Xiomara Paguaga | 20 | Managua | Unplaced | ||
1970 | Graciela Salazar | – | León | Unplaced | ||
1969 | Soraya Herrera | 18 | Managua | Unplaced | ||
1968 | Margine Davidson | 20 | Matagalpa | Unplaced | ||
No competition held between 1964–1967 | ||||||
1963 | Leda Sánchez | 20 | Carazo | Unplaced | ||
No competition held between 1956–1962 | ||||||
1955 | Rosa Argentina Lacayo † | 19 | Managua | Unplaced |
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Department | Titles | Years |
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Managua | 20 |
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Carazo | 4 |
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Chinandega | 3 |
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León |
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Masaya |
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Matagalpa |
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Rivas |
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South Caribbean Coast Autonomous Region | 2 |
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Chontales | 1 |
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Estelí |
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Río San Juan |
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