Miss Continente Americano 2006

Miss Continente Americano 2006
Date	August 28, 2006
Presenters	Cristhian Del Alcázar, Viviana Arosemena
Venue	Palacio de Cristal, Guayaquil, Ecuador
Broadcaster	Gamavision
Entrants	21
Placements	6
Winner	Mía Taveras  Dominican Republic

Miss Continente Americano 2006, the very first Miss Continente Americano pageant, was held in Guayaquil, Ecuador on August 28, 2006. Mía Taveras from the Dominican Republic was crowned as the very first Miss Continente Americano for the first lady of Ecuador María Beatríz Paret de Palacio.^[1][2]

Results

Placements

Final results	Contestant
Miss Continente Americano	Dominican Republic - Mía Taveras
1st Runner-up	Uruguay - Fatimih Dávila
2nd Runner-up	Venezuela - Dayana Colmenares
Top 6	Canada - Angela Triantafyllakis  Ecuador - Catalina López  Panama - Melissa Piedrahita

Special awards

Award	Contestant
Miss Photogenic	Ecuador - Catalina López
Miss Congeniality	El Salvador - Rebecca Iraheta
Most Beautiful Face	Ecuador - Catalina López

Contestants

Country	Contestant	Age	Height (cm)	Height (ft)	Hometown
Argentina	Soraya Antonella Bohl	19	178	5'10"	Entre Ríos
Aruba	Thisia Franken	18	175	5'8"	Oranjestad
Bolivia	Yolanda Sandoval Arias	20	173	5'8"	Santa Cruz de la Sierra
Brazil	Juliana Pina Mendoça	20	180	5'11"	Salvador
Canada	Angela Triantafyllakis	26	174	5'8"	Calgary
Chile	Estefanía Melús	20	180	5'11"	Arica
Colombia	Liliana del Carmen Morales Barrios	25	170	5'7"	Cartagena
Costa Rica	Fabriella María Quesada Sequeira	22	180	5'11"	Ciudad Colón
Dominican Republic	Mía Lourdes Taveras López	20	181	5'11"	Santiago de los Caballeros
Ecuador	Catalina "Katty" López	23	175	5'8"	Guayaquil
El Salvador	Rebecca Iraheta	19	175	5'8"	San Salvador
Guatemala	Mirna Lissy Salguero Moscoso	20	166	5'5"	Los Amates
Honduras	Lissa Diana Viera Sáenz	23	182	5'11"	La Ceiba
Mexico	Diana Karimen Jiménez Pérez	22	176	5'9"	Zacatecas
Nicaragua	María Cristiana Frixione Mendoza	22	172	5'7"	Managua
Panama	Melissa del Carmen Piedrahita Meléndez	23	174	5'8"	Panama City
Paraguay	Alicia Flores Batistei	24	170	5'7"	Asunción
Peru	Valerie Caroline Neff Murillo	23	181	5'11"	Lima
Puerto Rico	Ivelisse Fermín Ortiz	20	173	5'8"	Corozal
Uruguay	Fatimih Dávila Sosa	18	175	5'8"	Montevideo
Venezuela	Dayana Carolina Colmenares Bocchieri	21	176	5'9"	Maracay

Notes

Crossovers

• Contestants who also competed in Miss World 2005:
  •  Panama - Melissa Piedrahita

• Contestants who also competed in Miss Universe 2006:
  •  Costa Rica - Fabriella Quesada
  •  Ecuador - Catalina López
  •  Dominican Republic -Mía Taveras
  •  El Salvador - Rebecca Iraheta
  •  Nicaragua - Cristiana Frixione
  •  Uruguay - Fatimih Dávila

• Contestants who also competed in Miss International 2006:
  •  Guatemala - Lissy Salguero
  •  Honduras - Lissa Viera Sáenz

• Contestants who also competed in Miss Earth 2006:
  •  Peru - Caroline Neff

• Contestants who also competed in Miss Atlantico Internacional 2007:
  •  Argentina - Soraya Bohl (Winner)

• Contestants who also competed in Miss International 2008:
  •  Venezuela - Dayana Colmenares (Top 12)

• Contestants who also competed in Miss World 2008:
  •  Uruguay - Fatimih Dávila

References

1. ^ http://mundodebellezas.blogcindario.com/2006/09/00003-la-dominicana-mia-taveras-elegida-primera-miss-continente-americano.html
2. ^ "Dominicana ganó el Miss Continente Americano 2006". El Universo. http://archivo.eluniverso.com/2006/09/03/0001/1065/076AA2F63FD5405ABF7905E36FB4686F.aspx. 

External links

• Miss Continente Americano Official Website