Miss Colombia 2000
Encyclopedia
Miss Colombia 2000, the 66th Miss Colombia
pageant
, was held in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia
, on November 12, 2000, after three weeks of events. The winner of the pageant was Andrea María Noceti Gómez, Miss Cartagena de Indias.
The pageant was broadcast live on RCN TV
from the Centro de Convenciones Julio Cesar Turbay in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia
. At the conclusion of the final night of competition, outgoing titleholder Catalina Inés Acosta Albarracín crowned Andrea María Noceti Gómez of Cartagena de Indias as the new Miss Colombia
.
The runners-up were:
Miss Colombia
Señorita Colombia is an annual national beauty contest in Colombia that selects representatives to Miss Universe and Miss International...
pageant
Beauty contest
A beauty pageant or beauty contest, is a competition that mainly focuses on the physical beauty of its contestants, although such contests often incorporate personality, talent, and answers to judges' questions as judged criteria...
, was held in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia
Colombia
Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia , is a unitary constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. The country is located in northwestern South America, bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the...
, on November 12, 2000, after three weeks of events. The winner of the pageant was Andrea María Noceti Gómez, Miss Cartagena de Indias.
The pageant was broadcast live on RCN TV
RCN TV
RCN Televisión , is a Colombian private television network. It started as a production company in 1967...
from the Centro de Convenciones Julio Cesar Turbay in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia
Colombia
Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia , is a unitary constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. The country is located in northwestern South America, bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the...
. At the conclusion of the final night of competition, outgoing titleholder Catalina Inés Acosta Albarracín crowned Andrea María Noceti Gómez of Cartagena de Indias as the new Miss Colombia
Miss Colombia
Señorita Colombia is an annual national beauty contest in Colombia that selects representatives to Miss Universe and Miss International...
.
Results
- Miss Colombia 2000 – Andrea María Noceti Gómez (Cartagena DT y C)
The runners-up were:
- 1st runner-up – Virreina Nacional - Maria Rocío Stevenson Covo (BolívarBolívar DepartmentBolívar is a department of Colombia. It was named after one of the original nine states of the United States of Colombia. It is located to the north of the country, extending from the coast at Cartagena near the mouth of the Magdalena River, then south along the river to a border with Antioquia.Its...
) - 2nd runner-up – Mónica Caicedo Valencia (CaucaCauca DepartmentCauca is a Department of Colombia. Located in the south-western part of the country, facing the Pacific Ocean to the west, the Valle del Cauca Department to the north, Tolima Department to the northeast, Huila Department to the east and the Nariño Department to the south, covering a total area of...
) - 3rd runner-up – Giselle Garcés Aljure (ValleValle del Cauca DepartmentValle del Cauca is a department of Colombia. It is in the western side of the country, facing the Pacific Ocean, and it is considered one of the most important departments in the Republic of Colombia. Its capital is Santiago de Cali...
) - 4th runner-up – Lusdey Edith Ibarra Rangel (SantanderSantander DepartmentSantander is a department of Colombia. Santander inherited the name of one of the nine original states of the United States of Colombia. It is located in the central northern part of the country, east of the Magdalena River, bordered to the south and southeast by Boyacá, to the northeast by Norte...
)
Special awards
- Miss Photogenic (voted by press reporters) - Maria Rocío Stevenson Covo (BolívarBolívar DepartmentBolívar is a department of Colombia. It was named after one of the original nine states of the United States of Colombia. It is located to the north of the country, extending from the coast at Cartagena near the mouth of the Magdalena River, then south along the river to a border with Antioquia.Its...
) - Miss Congeniality - Diana Carolina Rengifo Ortiz (Tolima)
- Best Costume - Claudia Alejandra Palacios López (AmazonasAmazonas DepartmentAmazonas is a department of Colombia in the south of the country. Its capital is Leticia. Its name comes from the Amazon River that drains much in the department and the rainforest that covers a large part of the department....
) - Reina de la Policia - Ana Alexandra Rolón Lara (Norte de Santander)
- Señorita Puntualidad - María del Pilar Sandoval Medina (HuilaHuila DepartmentHuila is one of the departments of Colombia. It is located in the southwest of the country, and its capital is Neiva.-Geography:The south of the department is located in the Colombian Massif...
) - Miss Elegance - Johanna Cure Lemus (AtlánticoAtlántico DepartmentAtlántico is a department of Colombia, located in northern Colombia with the Caribbean sea to its north, the Bolívar Department to its south, and the Magdalena Department to its east separated by the Magdalena River...
)
Delegates
The Miss Colombia 2000 delegates are:- AmazonasAmazonas DepartmentAmazonas is a department of Colombia in the south of the country. Its capital is Leticia. Its name comes from the Amazon River that drains much in the department and the rainforest that covers a large part of the department....
- Claudia Alejandra Palacios López - AntioquiaAntioquia DepartmentAntioquia is one of the 32 departments of Colombia, located in the central northwestern part of Colombia with a narrow section that borders the Caribbean Sea. Most of its territory is mountainous with some valleys, much of which is part of the Andes mountain range...
- Ana Milena Amórtegui González - AtlánticoAtlántico DepartmentAtlántico is a department of Colombia, located in northern Colombia with the Caribbean sea to its north, the Bolívar Department to its south, and the Magdalena Department to its east separated by the Magdalena River...
- Natalie Elvira Ackermann Montealegre - Bogotá D.C.BogotáBogotá, Distrito Capital , from 1991 to 2000 called Santa Fé de Bogotá, is the capital, and largest city, of Colombia. It is also designated by the national constitution as the capital of the department of Cundinamarca, even though the city of Bogotá now comprises an independent Capital district...
- María Fernanda Navia Cardona - BolívarBolívar DepartmentBolívar is a department of Colombia. It was named after one of the original nine states of the United States of Colombia. It is located to the north of the country, extending from the coast at Cartagena near the mouth of the Magdalena River, then south along the river to a border with Antioquia.Its...
- Maria Rocío Stevenson Covo - CaldasCaldas DepartmentCaldas is a department of Colombia named after Colombian patriotic figure Francisco José de Caldas. It's part of the Paisa Region and its capital is Manizales. The population of Caldas is 1,030,062, and its area is 7,291 km²...
- Andrea Ocampo González - Cartagena DT y C - Andrea María Noceti Gómez
- CaucaCauca DepartmentCauca is a Department of Colombia. Located in the south-western part of the country, facing the Pacific Ocean to the west, the Valle del Cauca Department to the north, Tolima Department to the northeast, Huila Department to the east and the Nariño Department to the south, covering a total area of...
- Mónica Caicedo Valencia - CundinamarcaCundinamarca Department- Origin of the name :The name of Cundinamarca comes from Kundur marqa, an indigenous expression, probably derived from Quechua. Meaning "Condor's Nest", it was used in pre-Columbian times by the natives of the Magdalena Valley to refer to the nearby highlands....
- Marcela Ocampo Trujillo - Guajira - Luz Karime Henríquez Gómez
- HuilaHuila DepartmentHuila is one of the departments of Colombia. It is located in the southwest of the country, and its capital is Neiva.-Geography:The south of the department is located in the Colombian Massif...
- María del Pilar Sandoval Medina
- MagdalenaMagdalena DepartmentMagdalena is a department of Colombia, located to the north of the country by the Caribbean Sea. The capital of the Magdalena Department is Santa Marta and was named after the Magdalena River...
- Lizeth Alfaro López - MetaMeta DepartmentMeta is a department of Colombia. It is close to the geographic center of the country, to the east of the Andean mountains. A large portion of the department, which is also crossed by the Meta River, is covered by a grassland plain known as the Llanos. Its capital is Villavicencio...
- Martha Alexandra Gaitán Lozano - NariñoNariño DepartmentNariño is a department of Colombia named after Antonio Nariño. It is in the west of the country, bordering Ecuador and the Pacific Ocean.Its capital is Pasto, other important cities include Tumaco, Ipiales.-Municipalities:# Albán# Aldana# Ancuya...
- Carolina Rivera Bedoya - Norte de Santander - Ana Alexandra Rolón Lara
- PutumayoPutumayo DepartmentPutumayo is a department of Colombia. It is in the south-west of the country, bordering Ecuador and Peru. Its capital is Mocoa.The word putumayo comes from the Quechua language. The verb putuy means "to spring forth" or "to burst out", and mayo is a variant of mayu, meaning river...
- Paola Andrea Muñoz López - RisaraldaRisaralda DepartmentRisaralda is a department of Colombia. It is located in the western central region of the country and part of the Paisa Region. Its capital is Pereira.It was divided from the department of Caldas in 1966...
- Natalia Londoño Builes - San Andrés and ProvidenciaSan Andrés and Providencia DepartmentArchipelago of San Andrés, Providencia and Santa Catalina ; or colloquially San Andrés y Providencia is one of the departments of Colombia. It consists of two island groups about northwest of Colombia and from the coast of Nicaragua, and eight outlying banks and reefs...
- Margaret Brown Bryan - SantanderSantander DepartmentSantander is a department of Colombia. Santander inherited the name of one of the nine original states of the United States of Colombia. It is located in the central northern part of the country, east of the Magdalena River, bordered to the south and southeast by Boyacá, to the northeast by Norte...
- Luzdey Edith Ibarra Rangel - SucreSucre DepartmentSucre is a department in the Caribbean Region of Colombia. The department ranks 27th by area, and it has a population of 772,010, ranking 20th of all the 32 departments of Colombia...
- Silvia Paola Flórez Sierra - Tolima - Diana Carolina Rengifo Ortiz
- ValleValle del Cauca DepartmentValle del Cauca is a department of Colombia. It is in the western side of the country, facing the Pacific Ocean, and it is considered one of the most important departments in the Republic of Colombia. Its capital is Santiago de Cali...
- Giselle Garcés Aljure