Miss Dominican Republic Universe 2004

The Miss República Dominicana Universo 2004 will be held on April 3, 2004. This year only 34 candidates were competing for the national crown. The chosen winner will represent the Dominican Republic at the Miss Universe 2004

Miss Universe 2004

Miss Universe 2004, the 53rd Miss Universe pageant, was held in Centro de Convenciones CEMEXPO, Quito, Ecuador on June 1, 2004. It was won by Jennifer Hawkins of Australia....

pageant which was held in Quito

Quito

San Francisco de Quito, most often called Quito , is the capital city of Ecuador in northwestern South America. It is located in north-central Ecuador in the Guayllabamba river basin, on the eastern slopes of Pichincha, an active stratovolcano in the Andes mountains...

. 16 Provinces

Provinces of the Dominican Republic

The Dominican Republic is divided into thirty–one provincias , while the national capital, Santo Domingo, is contained within its own Distrito Nacional ....

, 16 Municipalities

Municipalities of the Dominican Republic

The provinces of the Dominican Republic are divided into two or more municipalities with the exception of the Distrito Nacional which consist of only one municipality Santo Domingo...

and 2 Dominican Communities

Dominican American

A Dominican American is any American who has origins in the Dominican Republic.Immigration records of Dominicans in the United States date from the late 19th century, and New York City has had a Dominican community since the 1930s...

had entered.

Results

{| class="wikitable" border="1"
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! Final Results
! Contestant
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| Miss República Dominicana Universo 2004
|

La Vega - Larimar Fiallo
Larimar Fiallo
Larissa del Mar Fiallo Scanlón , commonly referred to as Larimar Fiallo, represented Dominican Republic in the Miss Universe pageant in 2004....

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| 1st Runner-up
|

San Cristóbal - Isaura Taveras

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| 2nd Runner-up
|

Santiago
Santiago de los Caballeros Province
Santiago is a province of the Dominican Republic, in the north of the country. Santiago is an intellectual, educational, and cultural center. It is also a major industrial center with rum, textile, cigarette and cigar industries based there. Shoe manufacturing, leather goods, and furniture making...

- Pamela Sued

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| 3rd Runner-up
|

Distrito Nacional
Distrito Nacional
The Distrito Nacional is a subdivision of the Dominican Republic enclosing the capital Santo Domingo. It is not within any of the provinces, but is itself counted as a province. Before October 16, 2001, the Distrito Nacional was much larger, including what is now known as Santo Domingo Province....

- Yadira Geara
Yadira Geara
Yadira Geara Cury is a beauty queen from the Dominican Republic. At the age of 18, she participated in Miss Dominican Republic 2004, placing 3rd runner up. In 2005, she entered and won Reina Nacional de Belleza Miss República Dominicana 2005 was chosen to take part in Miss International 2005,...

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| 4th Runner-up
|

Hato Mayor - Dawilda González

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| 5th Runner-up
|

Bonao
Bonao
Bonao is the capital of Monseñor Nouel province, Dominican Republic. It is located in the center of the country, to the northwest of the national capital Santo Domingo.The city is known as "Villa De Las Hortensias" - the town of hortensias...

- Claudia Cruz
Claudia Cruz
Claudia Julissa Cruz Rodríguez , commonly referred to as Claudia Cruz represented Dominican Republic in the Miss World pageant in 2004....

|-
| Semi-finalists
|

San Pedro de Macorís - Annabel Martínez
Samaná - Carolyne Aquino
Valverde Mao - Yenny Gómez
Santo Domingo Este
Santo Domingo Este
Santo Domingo Este is a municipality and the provincial capital of the Santo Domingo province in the Dominican Republic. Within the municipality there is one municipal district : San Luis.....

- Anaylis Hernández
San Francisco de Macorís
San Francisco de Macorís
San Francisco de Macorís is a city in the Dominican Republic. It is also the capital of the Duarte Province. It has had a very active role in the shaping of Dominican history, as it is known as one of, if not the most, politically active cities in the country. It is located in the northeast portion...

- Johabel Paulino
San Juan
San Juan Province (Dominican Republic)
San Juan is a province of the Dominican Republic. Before 1961 it was known as Benefactor.-Municipalities and municipal districts:The province as of June 20 2006 is divided into the following municipalities and municipal districts within them:*Bohechío**Arroyo Cano **Yaque *El Cercado**Batista...

- Colombia Alcántara

Special awards

Miss Photogenic (voted by press reporters) - Claudia Cruz
Claudia Cruz
Claudia Julissa Cruz Rodríguez , commonly referred to as Claudia Cruz represented Dominican Republic in the Miss World pageant in 2004....

(Bonao
Bonao
Bonao is the capital of Monseñor Nouel province, Dominican Republic. It is located in the center of the country, to the northwest of the national capital Santo Domingo.The city is known as "Villa De Las Hortensias" - the town of hortensias...

)
Best National Costume - Gabriela Estrella (Tamboríl
Tamboríl
Tamboril is a municipality of the Santiago province in the Dominican Republic. Tamboríl is situated in the northeast part of the province, at the foot of the Cordillera Septentrional mountains, at 230 meters above sea level...

)
Miss Congeniality (voted by Miss Dominican Republic Universe contestants) - Larissa Fiallo (La Vega)
Most Disciplined -María Onfalia Morillo Lozada (Montecristi)
Best Face - Yenny Gómez (Valverde Mao)
The biggest improvement - María Onfalia Morillo LozadaMonte Cristi)

Final Competition Scores

{| class="wikitable sortable collapsible"
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! Representing !! Evening Gown !! Swimsuit !! Average !! Question
|-
| style="background-color:#FFCCCC;"|La Vega||style="background-color:#FFCCCC;"| 8.513||style="background-color:#FFCCCC;"|8.993||style="background-color:#FFCCCC;"| 8.753||style="background-color:#FFCCCC;"|9.263
|-
| style="background-color:#FFFF99;" |San Cristóbal||style="background-color:#FFFF99;" |9.105 ||style="background-color:#FFFF99;" |9.235||style="background-color:#FFFF99;"| 9.170||style="background-color:#FFFF99;"|9.185
|-
| style="background-color:#FFCC99;"|Santiago||style="background-color:#FFCC99;"| 9.104||style="background-color:#FFCC99;"|8.862 ||style="background-color:#FFCC99;"| 8.983 ||style="background-color:#FFCC99;"|9.101
|-
| style="background-color:#99FF99;"|Distrito Nacional||style="background-color:#99FF99;"|8.761 ||style="background-color:#99FF99;"|8.467 ||style="background-color:#99FF99;"| 8.614 ||style="background-color:#99FF99;"|9.051
|-
| style="background-color:#CCFFFF;" |Hato Mayor||style="background-color: #CCFFFF;" | 8.434||style="background-color: #CCFFFF;" |8.963 ||style="background-color: #CCFFFF;" |8.699 ||style="background-color: #CCFFFF;"|8.823
|-
| style="background-color: #CCCCFF;"| Bonao ||style="background-color: #CCCCFF;"|8.932 ||style="background-color: #CCCCFF;"|8.386 ||style="background-color: #CCCCFF;"| 8.659||style="background-color: #CCCCFF;"|8.802
|-
|San Pedro de Macorís ||8.602 ||8.401 ||8.502
|-
|Samaná || 8.396||8.412 ||8.404
|-
|Valverde Mao||8.065 ||8.149 ||8.107
|-
|Santo Domingo Este ||7.967 ||7.944 ||7.956
|-
|San Francisco de Macorís||7.731 ||7.534 ||7.633
|-
|San Juan ||7.258 ||7.864 ||7.561
|}

Winner

First runner-up

Second runner-up

Third runner-up

Fourth runner-up

Fifth runner-up

Top 12

Delegates

{| class="sortable wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! Represented !! Contestant !! Age !! Height !! Hometown
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| Azua

Azua Province

Azua is a province of the Dominican Republic.-Municipalities and municipal districts:The province as of June 20 2006 is divided into the following municipalities and municipal districts within them:...

|| Angie Agramonte Mora || 24 || || Santiago de los Caballeros

Santiago de los Caballeros

Santiago de los Caballeros is a city in the Dominican Republic. Founded in 1495 during the first wave of European colonization of the New World, today Santiago is the second largest metropolis in the Dominican Republic, located in the north-central region of the Republic known as Cibao valley...

|-
| Bonao

Bonao

Bonao is the capital of Monseñor Nouel province, Dominican Republic. It is located in the center of the country, to the northwest of the national capital Santo Domingo.The city is known as "Villa De Las Hortensias" - the town of hortensias...

|| Claudia Julissa Cruz Rodríguez || 18 || || Bonao

Bonao

|-
| Com. Dom. Nueva York

New York

New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...

|| Sandra Femin Rosal || 19 || || The Bronx

The Bronx

The Bronx is the northernmost of the five boroughs of New York City. It is also known as Bronx County, the last of the 62 counties of New York State to be incorporated...

|-
| Com. Dom. Pto. Rico

Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico , officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico , is an unincorporated territory of the United States, located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of both the United States Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands.Puerto Rico comprises an...

|| Carolin Martínez Guerrero || 20 || || Guaynabo
|-
| Distrito Nacional

Distrito Nacional

The Distrito Nacional is a subdivision of the Dominican Republic enclosing the capital Santo Domingo. It is not within any of the provinces, but is itself counted as a province. Before October 16, 2001, the Distrito Nacional was much larger, including what is now known as Santo Domingo Province....

|| Yadira Rossina Geara Cury || 18 || || Santo Domingo

Santo Domingo

Santo Domingo, known officially as Santo Domingo de Guzmán, is the capital and largest city in the Dominican Republic. Its metropolitan population was 2,084,852 in 2003, and estimated at 3,294,385 in 2010. The city is located on the Caribbean Sea, at the mouth of the Ozama River...

|-
| Duvergé

Duvergé

Duvergé is the largest city in the Independencia Province of the Dominican Republic. The first settlers of this community were the gentlemen Christopher Pérez and María del Pulgar, originating from San Juan de la Maguana, who they were established in Bermesí....

|| Lizfanny Emilia Emiliano Vásquez || 20 || || Duvergé

Duvergé

|-
| Guaymate

Guaymate

Guaymate is a town in the La Romana province of the Dominican Republic. In the middle of Yuma Region, 20 kilometers of the city of La Romana in the east of the Country, itself there be the population of Guaymate...

|| Georgina Solano Polanco || 23 || || La Romana
|-
| Hato Mayor || Dawilda González Cid || 19 || || Santo Domingo

Santo Domingo

|-
| Jarabacoa

Jarabacoa

Jarabacoa is a town and the second largest municipality in La Vega Province, Dominican Republic.- History :In 1805, during the Haitian invasion of the Cibao, survivors from the massacres of Santiago de los Caballeros and La Vega escaped to the mountains of the Cordillera Central and settled in the...

|| Risory Merán Castro || 22 || || Jarabacoa

Jarabacoa

|-
| La Romana || Patricia Soriano Cabrera || 24 || || La Romana
|-
| La Vega || Larissa del Mar Fiallo Scanlón || 20 || || Concepción de La Vega

Concepción de La Vega

La Vega, or Concepción de La Vega is the largest city and municipality of the central Dominican Republic and the third of the whole country...

|-
| Moca || Diana Rodríguez Vargas || 22 || || Moca

Moca, Dominican Republic

Moca is the capital of Espaillat province in the Dominican Republic.Moca is located 11 miles/18 kilometers away from the country’s second biggest city, Santiago De Los Caballeros. Moca is also known for its many great crops and friendly people....

|-
| Monte Cristi || María Onfalia Morillo Lozada || 19 || || San Felipe de Puerto Plata

San Felipe de Puerto Plata

San Felipe de Puerto Plata, often referred to as simply Puerto Plata, is the capital of the Dominican province Puerto Plata.The city is famous for resorts such as Playa Dorada and Costa Dorada, located east of San Felipe de Puerto Plata. There are a total of 100,000 hotel beds in the city.The only...

|-
| Monte Plata

Monte Plata Province

Monte Plata is a province of the Dominican Republic, and also the name of its capital city. It was split from San Cristóbal in 1992.-Municipalities and municipal districts:...

|| Jane Matos Mateo || 20 || || Santo Domingo

Santo Domingo

|-
| Nagua

Nagua

Nagua is the capital of María Trinidad Sánchez province, in the northeastern Dominican Republic.A medium-sized town, Nagua's economy relies on the production of agricultural products, principally rice, coconuts, and cocoa bean...

|| Susan González Victorio || 21 || || Santo Domingo

Santo Domingo

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| Puerto Plata || Mayra Cristina Cueto Tejeda || 18 || || San Felipe de Puerto Plata

San Felipe de Puerto Plata

|-
| Salcedo || Julissa Ramos Ynoa || 25 || || Salcedo
|-
| Samaná || Carolyne Aquino Benscome || 18 || || Santo Domingo

Santo Domingo

|-
| San Cristóbal || Rita Isaura Taveras Henríquez || 22 || || Santiago de los Caballeros

Santiago de los Caballeros

|-
| San Francisco de Macorís

San Francisco de Macorís

San Francisco de Macorís is a city in the Dominican Republic. It is also the capital of the Duarte Province. It has had a very active role in the shaping of Dominican history, as it is known as one of, if not the most, politically active cities in the country. It is located in the northeast portion...

|| Johabel Paulino Alvarado || 26 || || San Francisco de Macorís

San Francisco de Macorís

|-
| San José de las Matas

San José de las Matas

San José de las Matas is a municipality of the Santiago province in the Dominican Republic. Within the municipality there are three municipal districts : El Rubio, La Cuesta and Las Placetas....

|| Marjorie Padrón Lara || 21 || || Santiago de los Caballeros

Santiago de los Caballeros

|-
| San Juan

San Juan Province (Dominican Republic)

San Juan is a province of the Dominican Republic. Before 1961 it was known as Benefactor.-Municipalities and municipal districts:The province as of June 20 2006 is divided into the following municipalities and municipal districts within them:*Bohechío**Arroyo Cano **Yaque *El Cercado**Batista...

|| Colombia Alcántara Tatís || 20 || || El Cercado

El Cercado

El Cercado is a town in the San Juan province of the Dominican Republic.-History:The community of El Cercado was founded in 1845 by President Pedro Santana. It previously belonged to the municipality of Bánica and was called the Sabana del Bohío, and was elevated to town by President Fernando...

|-
| San Pedro de Macorís || Anna Mabelle Martínez Sosa || 18 || || San Pedro de Macorís

San Pedro de Macorís

San Pedro de Macorís is a municipality and the capital of the San Pedro de Macorís province in the Dominican Republic.-Demographics:...

|-
| Santiago

Santiago de los Caballeros Province

Santiago is a province of the Dominican Republic, in the north of the country. Santiago is an intellectual, educational, and cultural center. It is also a major industrial center with rum, textile, cigarette and cigar industries based there. Shoe manufacturing, leather goods, and furniture making...

|| Pamela Sued Chávez || 19 || || Santiago de los Caballeros

Santiago de los Caballeros

|-
| Santiago Rodríguez || Keyla Marcelino Medrano || 23 || || Villa de los Almácigos
|-
| Santo Domingo Este

Santo Domingo Este

Santo Domingo Este is a municipality and the provincial capital of the Santo Domingo province in the Dominican Republic. Within the municipality there is one municipal district : San Luis.....

|| Anaylis Cañizares Hernández || 18 || || Santiago de los Caballeros

Santiago de los Caballeros

|-
| Santo Domingo Norte

Santo Domingo Norte

Santo Domingo Norte is a municipality of the Santo Domingo Province in the Dominican Republic. There is one municipal district within the municipality: La Victoria....

|| Kenia Polanco Vera || 25 || || Santo Domingo

Santo Domingo

|-
| Santo Domingo Oeste

Santo Domingo Oeste

Santo Domingo Oeste is a municipality of the Santo Domingo province in the Dominican Republic. As of the 2008 census the municipality had 701,847 inhabitants, 432,112 living in the city itself and 269,735 in its rural districts ....

|| Massiel Peña Pérez || 23 || || Santo Domingo

Santo Domingo

|-
| Sosúa

Sosúa

Sosúa is a small town in the Puerto Plata province of the Dominican Republic. Located approximately from the Puerto Plata International Airport , the town is accessed primarily by Camino Cinco, or Highway 5, which runs much of the length of the country's North coastline...

|| Yinette Vallejo Medina || 24 || || San Felipe de Puerto Plata

San Felipe de Puerto Plata

|-
| Tamboríl

Tamboríl

Tamboril is a municipality of the Santiago province in the Dominican Republic. Tamboríl is situated in the northeast part of the province, at the foot of the Cordillera Septentrional mountains, at 230 meters above sea level...

|| Gabriela Estrella Valle || 20 || || Santiago de los Caballeros

Santiago de los Caballeros

|-
| Valverde Mao || Yenny Franchesca Gómez Peralta || 21 || || Santa Cruz de Mao

Santa Cruz de Mao

The Dominican city of Santa Cruz de Mao, or simply Mao, is the head municipality of the Valverde province, in the northwest of the country....

|-
| Villa Altagracia

Villa Altagracia

Villa Altagracia is a municipality of the San Cristóbal province in the Dominican Republic. Within the municipality there are three municipal districts : La Cuchilla, Medina and San José del Puerto....

|| Dairi Johanna Fortuna Mota || 21 || || Santo Domingo

Santo Domingo

|-
| Villa Bisonó

Villa Bisonó

Villa Bisonó, usually known as Navarrete, is a small municipality in the Dominican Republic northwestern section, created in 1956. It lies approximately from Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic's second largest city...

|| Joselyn Taveras Cabrera || 19 || || Santiago de los Caballeros

Santiago de los Caballeros

|-
| Villa González

Villa González

Villa Gonzalez is a municipality of the Santiago province in the Dominican Republic. Within the municipality there are two municipal districts : El Limón and Palmar Arriba.-Demographics:...

|| Rosmery Peña Herrera || 18 || || Santiago de los Caballeros

Santiago de los Caballeros

External links

http://www.bellezavenezolana.net/news/2004/Abril/20040406.htm
http://dr1.com/news/2004/dnews040504.shtml
http://www.uslatino.com/pictures.cfm?dir=DR_SantoDomingo_MissUniverseRD_04
http://www.bellezavenezolana.net/news/2004/Marzo/20040324.htm
http://www.claudiocordero.net/gallery2/v/poesia/belleza_dominicana/larimar_fiallo/

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