Miss World Puerto Rico or Miss Mundo de Puerto Rico is a national Beauty pageant that selects Puerto Rico's representative to the Miss World pageant.

Miss World Puerto Rico
Formation1959
TypeBeauty pageant
HeadquartersSan Juan
Location
Membership
Miss World
Official language
Spanish
President
Julia Morley

History

Puerto Rico debuted in Miss World in 1959, then was absent from 1960 to 1969.[citation needed] In 1970 a new organization took the responsibility of sending contestants until 1985 via castings. Puerto Rico did not compete in Miss World from 1986 to 1988. The Miss Puerto Rico organization, directed by Anna Santisteban, obtained the Miss World franchise in 1989, Tania Collazo was her first Miss World delegate. Santisteban produced Miss World PR until 1995.[citation needed]

In 1996, Delia Cruz, mother of Miss World Wilnelia Merced Cruz,[citation needed] obtained the franchise and began organizing the Miss Mundo de Puerto Rico pageant with Tania Collazo as organizer for a few years before Desiree Lowry and later on Shanira Blanco. Winners have been competing ever since in the international pageant. Puerto Rico has produced two winners (1975,2016), two 2nd runners-up (2005, 2011) and ten semi-finalists (1976, 1978, 1980, 1985, 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010), and three quarter-finalists (2012, 2019, 2021).

In 2017, due to the devastating effects of two hurricanes that heavily ravaged the entire island within a week, the organizers of Miss World Puerto Rico decided not to send the country's representative in this year's Miss World. No delegate was appointed due to lack of funding and sponsorship.

Representatives

The Miss World pageant began in 1951 and since then Puerto Rico has had 18 representatives classify in the finals including: 2 winners, 2 runners-up, 10 semi-finalists and 4 quarter-finalists.

Color key
  •   Declared as Winner
  •   Ended as runner-up
  •   Ended as one of the finalists or semifinalists
Year Municipality Miss World Puerto Rico Placement Special Awards Notes
2025   Manatí Valeria Nicole Pérez[1] TBA TBA
2024 No competition held
2023   Toa Baja Elena Rivera Reyes[2] Top 40 Top 25 Miss World Head to Head Challenge Top 23 Miss World Talent
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   Naranjito Aryam Mariel Díaz Rosado[3] Top 40 2nd runner-up Miss World Top Model
2020 Due to the impact of COVID-19 pandemic, no pageant in 2020
2019   Bayamón Daniella Rodríguez Laureano Top 40 Top 40 Miss World Top Model
2018   Canóvanas Dayanara Martínez Rosado Top 18 Miss World Talent
3rd Runner-up Sanya Tourism Promotional Video Award
2017 No Representative due to the devastating effects of two hurricanes
2016   Toa Baja Stephanie Marie Del Valle Díaz[4] Miss World 2016 Top 21 Miss World Talent
  Dorado Stephanie Román de León Did not compete
2015   Quebradillas Keysi Marie Vargas Vélez Top 5 Miss World Top Model
2014   Arroyo Génesis María Dávila Pérez Top 20 Miss World Top Model
2013   Caguas Nadyalee Torres López
2012   Barceloneta Janelee Marcus Chaparro Colón Top 30 Top 10 Best Dress Designer Award
Top 40 Miss World Beach Beauty
Top 46 Miss World Top Model
2011   San Juan Amanda Victoria Vilanova Pérez 2nd Runner-up Queen of Caribbean
Top 11 Miss World Talent
Top 24 Miss World Sports
Top 30 Beauty with a Purpose
2010   Barranquitas Yara Liz Lasanta Santiago Top 25 Winner Miss World Beach Beauty
2009   Bayamón Jennifer Colón Alvarado Top 12 Miss World Beach Beauty
Top 12 Miss World Sports
Top 12 Best Dress Designer Award
Later Miss Universe Puerto Rico 2024
2008   San Juan Ivonne Marie Orsini López Top 15 Top 32 Miss World Top Model
2007   Orocovis Jennifer Guevara Campos Top 16 1st Runner-up Miss World Top Model
2006   Arecibo Thebyam Carrión Álvarez Top 17 1st Runner-up Miss World Sports
Top 25 Miss World Beach Beauty
2005   Dorado Ingrid Marie Rivera Santos 2nd Runner-up Queen of Caribbean
2004   Luquillo Cassandra Castro Holland
2003   Bayamón Joyceline Montero García Top 20 1st Runner-up Miss World Talent
2002   Guaynabo Cassandra Polo Berríos Top 20
2001   Vieques Barbara Serrano Negrón
2000   Toa Alta Sarybel Velilla Cabeza
1999   Bayamón Arlene Torres Torres
1998   Juana Díaz Antonia Alfonso Pagán
1997   Dorado Aurea Isis Marrero Nieves
1996   Guaynabo Marissa De La Caridad Hernández Cardona Miss Mundo de Puerto Rico — Delia Cruz & Wilnelia Merced Cruz Lady Forsyth-Johnson Directorship
Miss Puerto Rico World/Miss World Puerto Rico through Miss Puerto Rico/Señorita Puerto Rico
1995   Guaynabo Swanni Quiñones Laracuente
1994   Aguas Buenas Joyce Marie Giraud Mojica
1993   San Juan Ana Rosa Brito Suárez
1992   Trujillo Alto Lianabel Rosario Centeno
1991   Lajas Johanna Berenice Irizarry Nazario
1990   San Juan Magdalena Pabón
1989   Orocovis Tania Collazo Barreiro Señorita Puerto Rico/Miss Puerto Rico — Ana Santisteban Directorship
Miss Puerto Rico for Miss World
1985   San Juan Iris Matías Gonzáles Top 15
1984   San Juan Maria De Los Angeles Rosas Silva
1983   Aibonito Fatima Mustafá Vázquez
1982   Morovis Jannette Torres Burgos
1981   San Juan Andrenira Ruiz
1980   Ponce Michele Torres Cintrón Top 15
1979   San Juan Daisy Marissette López
1978   Río Piedras Maria Jesús Cañizares Top 15
1977   Santurce Didriana "Dee Dee" Del Rio
1976   Bayamón Ivette Rosado Top 15
1975   Caguas Wilnelia Merced Cruz Miss World 1975
1974   Camuy Loyda Eunice Valle Blas Machado
1973 Milagros García
1972   Ponce Ana Nisi Goyco
1971 Raquel Quintana
1970 Alma Doris Pérez Vélez
Miss Puerto Rico
1959   San Juan Lyllianna "Lilie" Díaz Noya

See also

References

  1. ^ "De Manatí la nueva Miss Mundo de Puerto Rico 2022". April 6, 2024.
  2. ^ "La representante de Toa Baja se corona como la nueva Miss Mundo de Puerto Rico 2022". July 2022.
  3. ^ "Candidata de Naranjito se corona Miss Mundo de Puerto Rico 2021!". metro.pr. April 24, 2021.
  4. ^ "De Toa Baja la nueva Miss Mundo Puerto Rico 2016" (in Spanish). ElVocero.com. Archived from the original on 2016-12-19.