PAGEANT Circle

Dennise Cuadrado, the representative of Antioquia, was crowned Miss Grand Colombia 2024 on Sunday, August 4 at the Centro de Convenciones Cartagena de Indias. The 29-year-old fashion producer and model will represent Colombia at Miss Grand International 2024 in Cambodia and Thailand this October. She succeeds María Alejandra López, last year's winner who placed second runner-up at Miss Grand International 2023 in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Luisa Valentina of Cauca was named first runner-up while Lina Zambrano of Atlantico finished as the second runner-up. The contestants from Norte de Santander, Angelica Valero, Valle del Cauca, Daniela Roldan, Región Caribe, Ashly Fadul, and Cúcuta, Liliam Pinzon were the third, fourth, fifth and sixth runners-up, respectively. Completing the Top 12 were La Guajira, Claudia Cotes, Cartagena, Maria Gabriela Carriazo, Barranquilla, Vanessa García Romero, Arauca, Antonella Caroprese, and Magdalena, Valentina Urbina. The national pageant was attended

María Alejandra López was crowned Miss Grand Colombia 2023 in a glittering competition held last Sunday, June 18 at the Mayor Auditorium CUN in Bogota. The 28-year-old model and industrial engineer from Pereira bested over 20 other competitors to win the national title. "As an industrial engineer, working with our Colombian indigenous communities, working with people with disabilities like my uncle who has Down syndrome, I want to inspire the world and tell everyone that we are educated people, that we are talented," she answered during the Q&A portion. "We're not just coffee, emerald, beautiful women, and landscapes. We have so much potential to give to the world and we are already changing the course of our nation," she added. Yuri Rey from Meta and Valentina Cárdenas from Zona Andina were named the first and second runners-up, respectively. No stranger to pageantry, the new Miss Grand Colombia represented Risaralda at Miss Universe Colombia 2021 where she