Miss Bolivia

Ana María Ortiz in Miss World 2006.

Katherine David Céspedes in Miss Universe 2008.

Miss Bolivia is a Bolivian beauty contest responsible for selecting women to represent Bolivia in the Miss Universe, Miss World, Miss International, and Miss Earth international pageants. It was founded in 1959 and Gloria Suárez de Limpias has been the event's director since 1979. As of 2009, Bolivia has not won a Miss Universe or Miss World title.

A three-hour parade is held annually on August 5. Bolivian TV channel Unitel broadcasts it to the rest of Latin America, and cable broadcasts are available in the United States. For approximately one month, there are several preliminary events and presentations regarding the main parade.

Pageant in 2009

By general rule, three crowns are given each year: Miss Bolivia goes to Miss Universe, Miss Bolivia Mundo to Miss World, and Miss Bolivia Internacional to the Miss International contest; a fourth title is given to the representative for Miss Continente Americano. Besides the titleholders, there are four runner-up positions.

This year the local pageant changed its previous awarding modality by removing the inner Miss Amazonia, Miss Valle and Miss Andalucia titles to be replaced with Miss Bicentenario and Srta. Bicentenario, which are meant to be a historical way to remember the first steps of the local social movement that fought for the freedom of the south american countries ruled by the Spanish Colony 200 years ago (July 16, 1809), carried out in the nowadays currently administrative capital of Bolivia and the also main city where this pageant is hosted, La Paz.

At the same time, the company in charge of the Miss Bolivia pageant known as Promociones Gloria, with its Executive President Mrs. Gloria Suarez de Limpias, celebrates its 30th anniversary and had been honored to share such an event with the arrival of the currently two most beautiful women in the World, Miss Universe 2008 Dayana Mendoza from Venezuela and first Runner Up Taliana Vargas from Colombia.

Divisions for 2009

• Beni
  • Miss Beni
  • Srta. Beni
• Chuquisaca
  • Miss Chuquisaca
  • Miss Sucre
• Cochabamba
  • Miss Cochabamba
  • Srta. Cochabamba
• La Paz
  • Miss La Paz
  • Miss Illimani
• Oruro
  • Miss Oruro
  • Srta. Oruro
• Pando
  • Miss Pando
• Potosí
  • Miss Potosí
  • Srta. Potosí
• Santa Cruz
  • Miss Santa Cruz
  • Srta. Santa Cruz
  • Miss Litoral
  • Srta. Litoral
  • Miss. Bicentenario
• Tarija
  • Miss Tarija
  • Srta. Tarija
  • Srta. Bicentenario

Official Divisions

• Beni
  • Miss Beni
  • Srta. Beni
  • Miss Amazonía
• Chuquisaca
  • Miss Chuquisaca
  • Srta. Chuquisaca
• Cochabamba
  • Miss Cochabamba
  • Srta. Cochabamba
  • Miss Valle
• La Paz
  • Miss La Paz
  • Srta. La Paz
• Oruro
  • Miss Oruro
  • Srta. Oruro
• Pando
  • Miss Pando
• Potosí
  • Miss Potosí
  • Srta. Potosí
• Santa Cruz
  • Miss Santa Cruz
  • Srta. Santa Cruz
  • Miss Litoral
  • Srta. Litoral
• Tarija
  • Miss Tarija
  • Srta. Tarija
  • Miss Andalucía

Winners of Miss Bolivia's main beauty crowns

External links

• Miss Bolivia official site