Kara Lord is a beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Guyana

Guyana

Guyana , officially the Co-operative Republic of Guyana, previously the colony of British Guiana, is a sovereign state on the northern coast of South America that is culturally part of the Anglophone Caribbean. Guyana was a former colony of the Dutch and of the British...

 Universe 2011 and represented her country in Miss Universe 2011

Miss Universe 2011

Miss Universe 2011, the 60th anniversary of the Miss Universe pageant, was held at the Credicard Hall in São Paulo, Brazil on September 12, 2011. Ximena Navarrete of Mexico crowned her successor, Leila Lopes of Angola, at the end of this event...

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Pageants

Lord, who stands , competed as one of the nine finalists in her country's national beauty pageant, Miss Guyana Universe

Miss Guyana Universe

Miss Guyana Universe is a national beauty pageant for women in Guyana. The winner represents Guyana in Miss Universe.-Representative in Miss Universe Pageant:* Compete as British Guiana before 1966....

 2011, gaining the right to represent her country in Miss Universe 2011.

As the official representative of Guyana to the 2011 Miss Universe pageant, broadcast live from São Paulo

São Paulo

São Paulo is the largest city in Brazil, the largest city in the southern hemisphere and South America, and the world's seventh largest city by population. The metropolis is anchor to the São Paulo metropolitan area, ranked as the second-most populous metropolitan area in the Americas and among...

, Brazil

Brazil

Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...

 on September 12, 2011, Lord vied to succeed Miss Universe

Miss Universe

Miss Universe is an annual international beauty contest that is run by the Miss Universe Organization. The pageant is the most publicized beauty contest in the world with 600 million viewers....

 titleholder, Ximena Navarrete

Ximena Navarrete

Jimena "Ximena" Navarrete Rosete is a Mexican model and beauty pageant titleholder who won Miss Universe 2010. She was previously named as Nuestra Belleza México 2009.-Personal life:...

 of Mexico

Mexico

The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...

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