This annual beauty pageant, which began in 1991 as Reina Sudamericana (South American Queen), is based in Santa Cruz de la Sierra

Santa Cruz de la Sierra

Santa Cruz de la Sierra, commonly known as Santa Cruz, is the capital of the Santa Cruz department in eastern Bolivia and the largest city in the country...

, Bolivia

Bolivia

Bolivia officially known as Plurinational State of Bolivia , is a landlocked country in central South America. It is the poorest country in South America...

. Up to 2003 the participants were restricted to the 10 countries in South America

South America

South America is a continent situated in the Western Hemisphere, mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere. The continent is also considered a subcontinent of the Americas. It is bordered on the west by the Pacific Ocean and on the north and east...

; in 2004 participants from Panama

Panama

Panama , officially the Republic of Panama , is the southernmost country of Central America. Situated on the isthmus connecting North and South America, it is bordered by Costa Rica to the northwest, Colombia to the southeast, the Caribbean Sea to the north and the Pacific Ocean to the south. The...

 and Costa Rica

Costa Rica

Costa Rica , officially the Republic of Costa Rica is a multilingual, multiethnic and multicultural country in Central America, bordered by Nicaragua to the north, Panama to the southeast, the Pacific Ocean to the west and the Caribbean Sea to the east....

 in Central America

Central America

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 were invited; and in 2006 participants from Dominican Republic

Dominican Republic

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, Nicaragua

Nicaragua

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, Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico

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 & Spain

Spain

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 joined. In 2007 Mexico

Mexico

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, Guatemala

Guatemala

Guatemala is a country in Central America bordered by Mexico to the north and west, the Pacific Ocean to the southwest, Belize to the northeast, the Caribbean to the east, and Honduras and El Salvador to the southeast...

, Honduras

Honduras

Honduras is a republic in Central America. It was previously known as Spanish Honduras to differentiate it from British Honduras, which became the modern-day state of Belize...

 & USA were added, and the name changed to Reina Hispanoamericana. The pageant is organized by Promociones Gloria, based in Bolivia

Bolivia

Bolivia officially known as Plurinational State of Bolivia , is a landlocked country in central South America. It is the poorest country in South America...

. More than 15 contestants participate every year.

Titleholders

Year	Reina Hispanoamericana	Country	Virreina Hispanoamericana	Country	Venue
1991	Patricia Godói	Brazil	Vivian Benítez	Paraguay	Santa Cruz Santa Cruz de la Sierra Santa Cruz de la Sierra, commonly known as Santa Cruz, is the capital of the Santa Cruz department in eastern Bolivia and the largest city in the country... , Bolivia Bolivia Bolivia officially known as Plurinational State of Bolivia , is a landlocked country in central South America. It is the poorest country in South America...
1992	Francis Gago	Venezuela	Raquel Chaparro	Colombia	Santa Cruz, Bolivia
1993	Paola Vintimilla	Ecuador	Savka Pollak	Chile	Santa Cruz, Bolivia
1994	Liliana González	Paraguay	Solange Pastor	Venezuela	Santa Cruz, Bolivia
1995	Carolina Taís Müller	Brazil	María Auxiliadora González	Venezuela	Santa Cruz, Bolivia
1996	Helga Bauer (dethroned)		Gabriela Vergara Gabriela Vergara Gabriela Vergara Aranguren is an actress and model. She is best known as the 3rd runner-up in Miss Venezuela 1996. The following year she started acting in many telenovelas like Destino de Mujer as Vanessa in 1997 and La Mujer as Barbara Montesinos de Mutti in 2004. She recently gave birth to two...  (took over title)	Venezuela	Santa Cruz, Bolivia
	Gabriela Vergara Gabriela Vergara Gabriela Vergara Aranguren is an actress and model. She is best known as the 3rd runner-up in Miss Venezuela 1996. The following year she started acting in many telenovelas like Destino de Mujer as Vanessa in 1997 and La Mujer as Barbara Montesinos de Mutti in 2004. She recently gave birth to two...  (successor)	Venezuela	Tonka Tomicic Tonka Tomicic Tonka Tomicic Petric is a Chilean model and television presenter of Croat origin.-Career:She first came to public attention as the Chilean representative to the 1995 Miss World pageant. Soon after she was invited to the program Pase lo que Pase of TVN as a fashion commentator...  (new 1st runner-up)
1997 Reina Sudamericana 1997 Reina Sudamericana 1997, The 7th Reina Sudamericana Beauty Pageant was held in Santa Cruz, Bolivia on December 5, 1997. 10 contestants was competed in the event...	Patricia Fuenmayor	Venezuela	Verónica Larrieu	Bolivia	Santa Cruz, Bolivia
1998 Reina Sudamericana 1998 Reina Sudamericana 1998, The 8th Reina Sudamericana Beauty Pageant was held in Santa Cruz, Bolivia on November 6, 1998. 10 contestants was competed in the event...	Susana Barrientos	Bolivia	Daira Lambis	Venezuela	Santa Cruz, Bolivia
1999	Jenny Vaca Paz	Bolivia	Karen Larrea	Brazil	Santa Cruz, Bolivia
2000 Reina Sudamericana 2000 Reina Sudamericana 2000, The 10th Reina Sudamericana Beauty Pageant was held in Santa Cruz, Bolivia on November 3, 2000. 9 contestants was competed in the event...	Ligia Petit Ligia Petit Ligia Fernanda Petit Vargas is a Venezuelan model and actress who won the Miss Intercontinental 2001 contest held in Coburg, Germany on June 21, 2001. She was Miss Guárico in the Miss Venezuela 2000 pageant and won the title of 1st runner up...	Venezuela	Natalia Figueras	Uruguay	Santa Cruz, Bolivia
2001 Reina Sudamericana 2001 Reina Sudamericana 2001, The 11th Reina Sudamericana Beauty Pageant was held in Santa Cruz, Bolivia on November 9, 2001. 10 contestants was competed in the event...	María Rocío Stevenson	Colombia	Norelys Rodríguez	Venezuela	Santa Cruz, Bolivia
2002 Reina Sudamericana 2002 Reina Sudamericana 2002, The 12th Reina Sudamericana Beauty Pageant was held in Santa Cruz, Bolivia on November 15, 2002. 10 contestants was competed in the event...	Marcela Ruete	Ecuador	Irene Aguilera	Bolivia	Santa Cruz, Bolivia
2003 Reina Sudamericana 2003 Reina Sudamericana 2003, The 13th Reina Sudamericana Beauty Pageant was held in Santa Cruz, Bolivia on November 6, 2003. 10 contestants was competed in the event...	Cecília Valarini	Brazil	María Fernanda Tóndolo	Venezuela	Santa Cruz, Bolivia
2004 Reina Sudamericana 2004 Reina Sudamericana 2004, The 14th Reina Sudamericana Beauty Pageant was held in Cochabamba, Bolivia on October 29, 2004. 12 contestants was competed in the event...	Tania Domanickzy	Paraguay	Mónica Jaramillo	Colombia	Cochabamba Cochabamba Cochabamba is a city in central Bolivia, located in a valley bearing the same name in the Andes mountain range. It is the capital of the Cochabamba Department and is the fourth largest city in Bolivia with an urban population of 608,276 and a metropolitan population of more than 1,000,000 people... , Bolivia
2005 Reina Sudamericana 2005 Reina Sudamericana 2005, The 15th Reina Sudamericana Beauty Pageant was held in Cochabamba, Bolivia on October 14, 2005. 11 contestants was competed in the event. Diana Cepeda, Miss Colombia won the title.-Placements:-Contestants:-External links:* *...	Diana Milena Cepeda	Colombia	Priscila Del Salto	Ecuador	Cochabamba Cochabamba Cochabamba is a city in central Bolivia, located in a valley bearing the same name in the Andes mountain range. It is the capital of the Cochabamba Department and is the fourth largest city in Bolivia with an urban population of 608,276 and a metropolitan population of more than 1,000,000 people... , Bolivia
2006 Reina Sudamericana 2006 Reina Sudamericana 2006, The 16th Reina Sudamericana Beauty Pageant was held in Santa Cruz, Bolivia on October 27, 2006. 15 contestants was competed in the event. Francine Eickemberg, Miss Brazil won the title.-Placements:-Contestants:-External links:...	Francine Eickemberg	Brazil	Ana María Ortíz	Bolivia	Santa Cruz, Bolivia
2007 Reina Hispanoamericana 2007 Reina Hispanoamericana 2007, The 17th Reina Hispanoamericana Beauty Pageant was held at the FEXPO, in Santa Cruz, Bolivia on October 26, 2007. 20 contestants was competed in the event...	Massiel Taveras Massiel Taveras Massiel Indira Taveras Henríquez is Miss Dominican Republic Universe 2007. She was the successor of Mía Taveras López, her cousin. She graduated from Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra and became a lawyer and a designer....	Dominican Republic	Jane De Sousa Borges	Brazil	Santa Cruz, Bolivia
2008 Reina Hispanoamericana 2008 Reina Hispanoamericana 2008, the 18th Reina Hispanoamericana Beauty Pageant was held at the Manzana Uno, in Santa Cruz, Bolivia on October 30, 2008. 19 contestants competed in the event. Massiel Taveras from Dominican Republic crowned her successor at the final night...	Laura Zúñiga Laura Zúñiga Laura Elena Zúñiga Huizar is a Mexican model and beauty queen, center of a drug trafficking scandal in December of 2008...  (dethroned)		Vivian Noronha (took over title)		Santa Cruz, Bolivia
	Vivian Noronha (successor)		Gabriela Rejala Gabriela Rejala Gabriela Rejala is a beauty pageant contestant who represented Paraguay in Miss World 2008 in South Africa. She also represented Paraguay in Reina Hispanoamericana 2008 in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, on October 30, 2008, and placed as second runner-up. She was Top 16 semifinalist on Miss Earth...  (new 1st runner-up)
2009 Reina Hispanoamericana 2009 Reina Hispanoamericana 2009, The 19th Reina Hispanoamericana Beauty Pageant was held in Parque Urbano, in Santa Cruz, Bolivia on October 29, 2009. 21 contestants was competed in the event. Adriana Vasini, Miss Venezuela, won the title .-Placements:...	Adriana Vasini Adriana Vasini Adriana Cristina Vasini Sánchez, is a Venezuelan beauty queen and fashion model who won the titles of Miss World Venezuela 2009 and Reina Hispanoamericana 2009...		Sandra Vinces Sandra Vinces Sandra Vinces was born in Portoviejo, Ecuador in May 24, 1990. She is 5'11 tall. She was Miss Ecuador 2009. She was elected from 21 contestants, representing the province of Manabi. The pageant was held in Manta, Ecuador. Vinces has studied painting, singing, theater and professional modeling....	Ecuador	Santa Cruz, Bolivia
2010 Reina Hispanoamericana 2010 Reina Hispanoamericana 2010, the 20th Reina Hispanoamericana beauty pageant, was held in Santa Cruz, Bolivia on November 24, 2010. Twenty-two delegates from the Americas and the Iberian peninsula competed for the title....	Caroline Medina Caroline Medina Caroline Gabriela Medina Peschiutta is a Venezuelan beauty queen who won the titles of Miss Venezuela Earth 2010 and Reina Hispanoamericana 2010.-Beauty pageant competitions:...		Egni Eckert Egni Eckert Egni Analia Almirón Eckert, simply known as Egni Eckert or Egny Eckert, is a model and beauty queen contestant from Paraguay who represented her country in the Miss World 2010 pageant held in Sanya, China, placing among the Top 25 finalists....		Santa Cruz, Bolivia
2011 Reina Hispanoamericana 2011 Reina Hispanoamericana 2011, the 21th Reina Hispanoamericana beauty pageant, will be held in Santa Cruz, Bolivia on October 27, 2011. Twenty-two delegates from the Americas and the Iberian peninsula will compete for the title....	Eva Van Putten		María Jesús Matthei		Santa Cruz, Bolivia

By number of wins

Country/Territory	Titles	Winning years
	6	1992, 1996 (took over title), 1997, 2000, 2009, 2010
	5	1991, 1995, 2003, 2006, 2008 (took over title)
	3	1996 (dethroned), 1998, 1999
	2	2001, 2005
		1994, 2004
		1993, 2002
	1	2011
		2008 (dethroned)
		2007

External links

• Reina Hispanoamericana Official Website