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Miss Grand Colombia 2023
María López, the winner of the contest
Date	June 18, 2023
Presenters	Lees Garcia Manuela Restrepo
Venue	Mayor Auditorium CUN, Bogota, Colombia
Broadcaster	Canal 1, YouTube
Entrants	23
Placements	12
Debuts	Amazonas Antioquia Armenia Bogotá Bolívar Bucaramanga Cali Cauca Chile Cundinamarca Eje Cafetero Europe Medellín Meta Miami Nariño Panama Quindío Risaralda Santander Valle del Cauca Washington, D.C.
Returns	Zona Andina
Winner	María Alejandra López (Eje Cafetero)
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External videos
Miss Grand Colombia 2023 Grand Final Competition, on June 18, 2023, YouTube video

Miss Grand Colombia 2023 was the third edition of the Miss Grand Colombia pageant, held on June 18, 2023, at the Mayor Auditorium CUN located in the country's capital city, Bogotá D.C. Candidates from twenty-three Colombian departments and oversea communities competed for the title, of whom, an industrial engineer representing Eje Cafetero, María Alejandra López, was announced the winner and crowned by Miss Grand Colombia 2022, Priscilla Londoño. As Miss Grand Colombia 2023, she represent her country at Miss Grand International 2023 held in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, where she was named the 2nd runner-up.

The grand final of the pageant was broadcast to the audience nationwide via a state-owned television channel, Canal 1, and was hosted by Lees Garcia Miss Grand International 2014 and Manuela Restrepo Miss Teen Colombia 2022/23.

Selection of contestants

The national candidates for Miss Grand Colombia 2023 were chosen by either the national organizer or regional licensees; however, most of them were appointed, and only one sub-national pageant, Miss Grand Colombia in Europe, has been held. Still, the winner of such a contest later resigned from the title, which caused the organizer, AIHME Association (Italian-Hispanic Association of Women Entrepreneurs Emigrants in Europe), to appoint the 1st runner-up as the replacement.

Of the central organizer-selected candidates, each of them was later assigned to represent one of the country's administrative divisions that lacked a regional licensee.

The following table is the details of the 2023 Miss Grand Colombia's sub-national contest

Host state	Pageant	Edition	Date & Venue	Entrants	Ref.
Italy	Miss Grand Colombia en Europa	1st	June 3 at the AEGUA Disco Club, Varazze, Savona, Italy	5

Competition

At the grand final competition held on June 18, 2023, at the Mayor Auditorium CUN, Bogotá, the top 12 and top 6 finalists who were determined through all pre-final activities which included the preliminary competition held one day earlier, were announced after finishing the opening show, swimsuit parade, and the evening gown show. In the final 6 rounds, all qualified contestants were then asked the same question and the panel of judges scored each of them based on their answers, three contestants with the highest given scores qualified for the final 3 rounds, in which, the two runners-up and the winner of the contest were decided based on the accumulated scores from all previous rounds.

Result

Miss Grand Colombia 2023 competition result by department/city/etc. Colombian community in other countries:  Chile  Europe  Miami  Panama  Washington, D.C. Barranquilla Cesar Bolívar Zona Andina  Bucaramanga Antioquia Santander Cundinamarca Bogotá  Meta Amazonas Medellín Risaralda  Eje Cafetero Armenia Quindío Valle del Cauca Cali Cauca Nariño Color key:  Winner  First runner-up  Second runner-up   Top 6   Top 12   Unplaced   Did not participate   Representative determined but did not compete

Main placement

Special awards

Candidates

Originally, twenty-five candidates confirmed to participate, but two candidates, including Dayana Cárdenas Mestraof the Cesar, and Sophia Ortiz of Barranquilla, withdrew from the competition for health issues, making the finalized total of twenty-three contestants.

Department/District	Contestant	Placement
Amazonas	Catalina Cabrera Jimenez
Antioquia	Valeria Gutierrez	Top 12
Armenia	Angela Gonzales	Top 12
Bogotá	Valentina Bermudez
Bolívar	Jania Lucia Viano Polo	Top 12
Bucaramanga	Andrea Motta	Top 12
Cali	Yamileth Delgado
Cauca	Maria Alejandra Millan
Colombian communities in Chile	Katherin Aguilar Castillo
Colombian communities in Europe	Aischa Vargas Duran	Top 12
Colombian communities in Miami	Maria Camila Medina
Colombian communities in Panama	Diana Sandoval	Top 6
Colombian communities in Washington, D.C.	Sasha Perea	Top 6
Cundinamarca	Daniela Mejía	Top 12
Eje Cafetero	María Alejandra López	Miss Grand Colombia 2023
Medellín	Camila Medellín
Meta	Yuri Rey	1st Runner-Up
Nariño	Lina María Santacruz
Quindío	Vanessa Fandiño
Risaralda	Maria Jose Villegas	Top 6
Santander	Lizeth Montañez
Valle del Cauca	Emily Pulido
Zona Andina	Valentina Cárdenas	2nd Runner-Up

References

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4. ^ "Miss Grand Colombia 2023 Final Show to be broadcast live on Canal 1" (in Spanish). César Prado Casa de Reinas. May 10, 2023. Retrieved May 11, 2023.
5. "Participante de certamen de belleza cayó al agua en medio de su pasarela" (in Spanish). El Tiempo. June 17, 2023. Archived from the original on June 19, 2023. Retrieved June 18, 2023.
6. ^ Diego Yaranga (June 18, 2023). "Miss Grand Colombia 2023 EN VIVO HOY: hora, CANDIDATAS y cómo ver el concurso de belleza Canal 1" (in Spanish). La República. Archived from the original on June 19, 2023. Retrieved June 18, 2023.
7. "Gran favorita se corona como Miss Grand Colombia 2023". Metro Puerto Rico (in Spanish). June 19, 2023. Retrieved October 29, 2023.
8. ^ Dana Chaparro (June 18, 2023). "¡Felicidades! Eje Cafetero se llevó la corona en Miss Grand Colombia" (in Spanish). Canal 1. Archived from the original on June 19, 2023. Retrieved June 19, 2023.
9. Beltrán, Por Daniela (October 25, 2023). "La colombiana María Alejandra López quedó entre las tres más hermosas en el concurso Miss Grand Internacional: Perú fue la reina". infobae (in European Spanish). Retrieved October 29, 2023.
10. País, El (October 26, 2023). "¿Quién es María Alejandra López? Miss Grand Colombia 2023, que quedó de segunda en el certamen internacional". Noticias de Cali, Valle y Colombia - Periodico: Diario El País (in Spanish). Retrieved October 29, 2023.
11. ^ "Miss Grand Colombia en Europe 2023" (in Spanish). Reinas en Europa. May 26, 2023. Retrieved June 13, 2023 – via Internet Archive.
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14. "Sophia Ortiz, representante de Barranquilla en concurso Miss Grand Colombia, anunció su retiro: "por motivos de fuerza mayor"". www.elpais.com.co (in Spanish). El País. June 13, 2023. Archived from the original on June 13, 2023. Retrieved June 13, 2023.
15. "Valeria Chavarriaga elegida como Miss Grand Antioquia" (in Spanish). Teleantioquia. June 6, 2023. Archived from the original on June 19, 2023. Retrieved June 18, 2023.
16. Sandry Crespo (June 13, 2023). "Diana Sandoval representa a Panamá en el Miss Grand Colombia" (in Spanish). La Estrella de Panamá. Archived from the original on June 15, 2023. Retrieved June 15, 2023.
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External links

• Media related to Miss Grand Colombia at Wikimedia Commons

• 2023 beauty pageants
• Miss Grand Colombia
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