Miss Grand Ecuador
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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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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 Topic'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]
Editions
Location and date
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] |
Competition result
| 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] |
International competition
The following is a list of Ecuadorian representatives at the Miss Grand International contest.
- Color keys
- : Declared as the winner
- : Ended as a runner-up (Top 5)
- : Ended as a finalist (Top 10)
- : Ended as a semifinalist (Top 20/22)
- : Ended as special awards winner
| 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 | Top 22 | 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 | ||
National pageant candidates
Participating provinces and territories representatives
| Representatives | 1st | 2nd | ||||||
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| Provinces | ||||||||
| Azuay | ||||||||
| Bolívar | ||||||||
| Cañar | Y | |||||||
| Carchi | ||||||||
| Chimborazo | ||||||||
| Cotopaxi | ||||||||
| El Oro | Y | Y | ||||||
| Esmeraldas | Y | Y | ||||||
| Galápagos | ||||||||
| Guayas | ||||||||
| Imbabura | ||||||||
| Loja | ||||||||
| Los Ríos |  |
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| Manabí |  |
Y | ||||||
| Morona Santiago | ||||||||
| Napo | ||||||||
| Orellana | ||||||||
| Pastaza | ||||||||
| Pichincha |  |
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| 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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