Miss Earth Puerto Rico

Miss Earth Puerto Rico (previously called Miss Puerto Rico) is a beauty pageant that selects Puerto Rico's official representative to Miss Earth—one of the Big Four international beauty pageants.

Main article: Miss Puerto Rico

Miss Earth Puerto Rico

Formation	2001
Type	Beauty pageant
Headquarters	San Juan
Location	Puerto Rico
Membership	Miss Earth Miss Global
Official language	Spanish
National Directors	Vanessa De Roide Joe Amhed (2018)

History

The Miss Puerto Rico Universe organization sent representatives to Miss Earth between 2001–2004. From 2005 to 2013 Puerto Rico's representative to Miss Earth was selected through the Miss Puerto Rico Earth pageant.^[1] Puerto Rico did not compete in 2007–2008, 2013 and 2015–2016. Nellys Pimentel made history becoming the first Puerto Rican to win Miss Earth in 2019.

Representatives

The following titleholders have represented Puerto Rico in three of the Big Four major international beauty pageants for women.

Color key

•   Declared as Winner
•   Ended as runner-up
•   Ended as one of the finalists or semifinalists

Representative to Miss Earth

Year	Miss Earth Puerto Rico	Municipality	Placement	Special award(s)	Ref.
2024	Bianca Nicole Miranda Caraballo	Mayagüez	Top 8 (Runner-Up)	Vonwelt Nature Farm Ambassadress	[2]
2023	Victoria Alejandra Arocho del Valle	Caguas	Top 12		[3][4]
2022	Paulina Nicole Avilés-Feshold	Carolina	Top 8	Long Gown Competition (Air Group) Resort Wear Competition (Air Group) Miss Flavor Cartel	[5]
2021	Cristina Mariel Ríos Reyes	San Sebastián	Unplaced	Casual Chic Competition Long Gown Competition	[6][7][8]
2020	Krystal Badillo Pagan	Canóvanas	Top 8	Long Gown (America)	[9][10][11]
2019	Nellys Rocio Pimentel Campusano	San Juan	Miss Earth 2019	Swimsuit (Water) Long Gown (Water) Miss Earth Flora	[12][13][14]
2018	Krystal Xamairy Rivera Barrios	Arecibo	Unplaced	Miss Pontefino Hotel Talent (Water group)
2017	Karla Victoria Aponte	San Juan	Unplaced	Miss JACMI Swimsuit (Group 3) Long Gown (Group 3) Eco-Video Presentation
2016	No Representative
2015	Withdrew
2014	Franceska Toro Medina	Toa Baja	Unplaced	Miss Advance Miss Psalmstre M.E Eco-Beauty Video Darling of the Press Cocktail Wear Resort Wear Top Model of the World 2016 (1st runner - up)
2013	Velmary Paola Cabassa Vélez	San Juan	Did not compete
2012	Darli Arni Pacheco Montañez	Toa Baja	Unplaced	Miss Talent (Group 1) Liter of Light Project Campaign (Group 1) Resort Wear (Group 1) Swimsuit (Group 1)
2011	Agnes Eileen Benítez Santiago	Bayamón	Unplaced
2010	Yeidy Enid Bosques Pérez	Mayagüez	Miss Fire (Runner-Up)
2009	Dignelis Taymí Jiménez Hernández	Arecibo	Unplaced	Placenta Award
2008	Nathalie Cuevas
2007	Withdrew
2006	Camille Collazo Ortiz	San Juan	Unplaced
2005	Vanessa De Roide Toledo	Carolina	Top 8	Best in Long Gown Miss Pond's
2004	Shanira Blanco Colón	San Juan	Unplaced	Miss Leonardo
2003	Norelis Ortiz Acosta	Gurabo	Unplaced
2002	Deidre Rodríguez Santiago	Santa Isabel	Unplaced
2001	Amaricelys Reyes Guzmán	Isabela	Unplaced

Representative to Miss Global

Year	Miss Global Puerto Rico	Municipality	Placement	Special awards	Ref.
2024	Ediris Joan Rivera Berrios	Barranquitas	TBA		[2]
2023	Ashley Meléndez Ríos	Fajardo	Miss Global 2023		[15][16]

See also

• Miss Puerto Rico

References

1. Archived 2017-06-06 at the Wayback Machine
2. Pedro Correa Henry (2 February 2024). "Bianca Caraballo y Ediris Joan Rojas se coronan Miss Earth Puerto Rico y Miss Global Puerto Rico 2024" (in Spanish). El Nuevo Dia. Event occurs at 10:34 AM, Atlantic Time Zone (UTC-4).
3. "De Caguas la nueva Miss Earth Puerto Rico" [From Caguas the new Miss Earth Puerto Rico]. El Vocero (in Spanish). January 30, 2023. Retrieved January 30, 2023.
4. "De Caguas la nueva Miss Earth Puerto Rico". El Vocero (in Spanish). 2023-01-30. Retrieved 2023-01-30.
5. "Paulina Avilés se corona como Miss Earth Puerto Rico". Primera Hora (in Spanish). February 2, 2022. Retrieved February 15, 2022.
6. "Valerie Vigoreaux es la nueva Miss Earth Puerto Rico 2021". El Nuevo Día. 23 November 2020. Retrieved 2020-11-25.
7. "Hija de Roberto Vigoreaux coronada Miss Earth PR 2021". Primera Hora (in Spanish). 23 November 2020. Retrieved 2020-12-06.
8. VOCERO, Redacción, EL. "Gana Miss Earth". El Vocero de Puerto Rico (in Spanish). Retrieved 2020-12-06.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
9. "Puerto Rico entre las finalistas de Miss Earth 2020". Primera Hora (in Spanish). 29 November 2020. Retrieved 11 December 2020.
10. "Krystal Badillo es la nueva Miss Earth de Puerto Rico". Primera Hora. 20 May 2020. Retrieved 3 June 2020.
11. Đại, Thời (24 May 2020). "Tân Hoa hậu Trái đất Puerto Rico 2020 được kì vọng tiếp nối chiến thắng của người tiền nhiệm". Thời Đại (in Vietnamese). Retrieved 3 June 2020.
12. "Puerto Rico wins 1st Miss Earth title". ABS-CBN News. 26 October 2019. Retrieved 2020-05-25.
13. "Beauty Pageants: Are The Crowns On the Right Heads? - Nigerian News from Leadership News". Nigerian News from Leadership News. Archived from the original on 2015-12-22. Retrieved 25 May 2020.
14. "La puertorriqueña Nellys Pimentel es elegida Miss Tierra 2019". Agencia EFE via La Vanguardia (in Spanish). 2019-10-26. Retrieved 2020-05-27.
15. "Nhan sắc người đẹp Puerto Rico đăng quang Hoa hậu Toàn cầu 2023". Tiền Phong (in Vietnamese). 19 January 2024. Retrieved 2024-01-19.
16. "La puertorriqueña Ashley Meléndez gana la corona de Miss Global 2023 en Vietnam" (in Spanish). El Nuevo Día. 19 January 2024. Retrieved 19 January 2024.

External links

• Miss Earth^[usurped]