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Señorita Panamá 2006
Señorita Panamá 2006 the 24th Annual Señorita Panamá pageant and 41st celebration of the ''Miss Panama'' contest, was held in the Gran Salón del Hotel & Casino Venetto, Panama City, Panama Wednesday 15, July 2006. About 9 contestants from all over Panamá competed for the prestigious crown. Señorita Panamá World 2005, Anna Vaprio Medaglia of Panamá Centro crowned to Giselle Bissot of Panamá Centro as the new Señorita Panamá. This year the final only selected Señorita Panamá for Miss World. The requirements of selection of the competitors for this year were: to be a model and have experience in beauty contests, since it needed to be a woman who was already prepared in advance. Contestants had taken part in: Miss Panama, Miss Hawaiian Tropic Panamá and Miss International Panama. Bissot competed in the 56th edition of the Miss World 2006 pageant, was held at the Palace of Culture and Science in, Warsaw, Poland on September 30, 2006. Bissot declined her participation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giselle Bissot
Giselle Marie Bissot Kieswetter (born 18 December 1982, in Panama City, Panama) is a Panamanian model and beauty pageant titleholder who winner of the Señorita Panamá 2006 title on 15 July 2006 for Miss World 2006 contest. Participation in contests In 1998 it took part Chica & Chico Modelo. In 2003 stayed of the first finalist in Señorita Panamá. In 2005 it went to ''Miss Asia Pacificic International'' in China, Also it took part in the Miss Mesoamérica, which was realized in Houston, where it occupied the fourth place. Miss Panamá 2006 At the end of the Señorita Panamá 2006 she also received awards including Best Hair, Miss Camel Toe, Miss Bikini Shop. Bissot is 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m) tall, and competed in the national beauty pageant Señorita Panamá 2006. She represented the state of Panamá Centro . Miss World 2006 She represented Panama in the 56th edition of the Miss World 2006 pageant, was held at the Palace of Culture and Science in, Warsaw, Poland ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miss Universe
Miss Universe is an annual international beauty pageant that is run by a United States and Thailand based Miss Universe Organization.Natalie Tadena (July 2, 2015"Donald Trump's Miss USA Pageant Lands on Reelz Cable Channel". ''The Wall Street Journal''. It is one of the most watched pageants in the world with an estimated audience of over 500 million viewers in over 190 territories. Along with Miss World, Miss International, and Miss Earth, Miss Universe is one of the Big Four international beauty pageants. The Miss Universe Organization is currently owned by JKN Global Group. Telemundo has the licensing rights to air the pageant through 2023. The pageant's advocacy is "humanitarian issues and is a voice to affect positive change in the world." The current Miss Universe is Harnaaz Sandhu of India who was crowned on December 13, 2021 in Eilat, Israel. History The title "Miss Universe" was first used by the International Pageant of Pulchritude in 1926. This contest was h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yaviza
Yaviza is a town and corregimiento in Pinogana District, Darién Province, Panama with a population of 4,441 as of 2010. Location The town marks the southeastern end of the northern half of the Pan-American Highway, at the north end of the Darién Gap.Leonard, Thomas MHistorical Dictionary of Panama p. xxxv (2015) It lies on the Chucunaque River, a major tributary of the Tuira River, along which travel by boat into the Darién Gap occurs. The nearest town on the river route is El Real de Santa María, which is the capital of Pinogana District. Demographics The population of Yaviza as of 1990 was 8,452, falling to 3,317 as recorded in the year 2000, and rising to 4,441 as of 2010. History The town was founded by Spanish missionaries as San Jerónimo de Yaviza in September 1638.Rutkow, EricThe Longest Line on the Map p. 322 (2019) A Spanish fort (Fuerte de San Geronimo de Yaviza) was built in 1760, and heavily damaged by an attack of the Indigenous Guna in 1780. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Las Tablas, Panama
Las Tablas () is the capital of the Panamanian province of Los Santos, with a population of 9,255 as of 2010. It is located a few kilometres inland from the Gulf of Panama on the Azuero Peninsula. Las Tablas is a recognised national centre of Panamanian folk: Art, music, gastronomy, architecture, culture and literature. The only Panamanian president to serve three terms, Belisario Porras, was from Las Tablas. It is known for a lively yearly Carnival, in which the city splits into two competing factions, "Calle Arriba" (Uptown, literally "Street Above") and "Calle Abajo" (Downtown / Street Below), both centred on two streets of the same name. Each faction will have a carnival queen, a parade, fireworks, music, a decorated plaza, food stands, presentations, concerts, surveys, games, contests, etc., all attempting to overpower the other faction's efforts. Etymology According to folklore, the town takes its name, which translates as "The Boards", from planks of wood salvaged fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Los Santos Province
Los Santos () is a province in Panama, reaching from the La Villa river in the North to the Pacific Ocean in the south and east. It is part of the Azuero Peninsula, bounded by the province of Herrera to the north and northeast, and by Mariato District of Veraguas Province to the West. The City of Las Tablas is the capital and most populous city. There are seven administrative districts under the jurisdiction of Los Santos Province. Los Santos's area is 3,809.4 km ², and its population is 95,540 inhabitants in 2019. In this region are the oldest human settlements in the Isthmus of Panama. It was part of the cultural region of Gran Cocle where one of the first ceramic styles of the Americas developed. The first Europeans to explore Los Santos were the Spanish in 1515 under the command of Gonzalo de Badajoz. Upon the arrival of Europeans the area was ruled by the cacique Antataura or Cutara, and was known as the Land of Mr. Paris or Parita from Ngäbere Bari-ta meaning ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Panama Province
Panama ( , ; es, link=no, Panamá ), officially the Republic of Panama ( es, República de Panamá), is a transcontinental country spanning the southern part of North America and the northern part of South America. It is bordered by Costa Rica to the west, Colombia to the southeast, the Caribbean Sea to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the south. Its capital and largest city is Panama City, whose metropolitan area is home to nearly half the country's million people. Panama was inhabited by indigenous tribes before Spanish colonists arrived in the 16th century. It broke away from Spain in 1821 and joined the Republic of Gran Colombia, a union of Nueva Granada, Ecuador, and Venezuela. After Gran Colombia dissolved in 1831, Panama and Nueva Granada eventually became the Republic of Colombia. With the backing of the United States, Panama seceded from Colombia in 1903, allowing the construction of the Panama Canal to be completed by the United States Army Corps of Engine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sorangel Matos
Sorangel Matos Arce (born January 2, 1986) is a Panamenian beauty pageant titleholder. She was the official representative of Panamá to the Miss Universe 2007 pageant, held in Mexico City, Mexico Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatema ... on May 28, 2007;. Pageant participation *Miss Tourism Queen International 2006 Matos represented Panama at the Miss Tourism Queen International Pageant in Shanghai - China *Reina Del Carnaval De Panama 2007 *Señorita Panama 2006 Matos competed in the national beauty pageant Miss Panama 2006, representing the state of Darien. On March 19, 2007, she was designated the Miss Panama 2007, becoming the first woman from the state of Darien to win the title. *Miss Continentes Unidos 2007 Matos represented Panama at the Miss Continentes Unidos P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darién Province
Darién (, , ) is a province in Panama whose capital city is La Palma. With an area of , it is located at the eastern end of the country and bordered to the north by the province of Panamá and the region of Kuna Yala. To the south, it is bordered by the Pacific Ocean and Colombia. To the east, it borders Colombia; to the west, it borders the Pacific Ocean and the province of Panama. The area surrounding the border with Colombia is known as the Darién Gap, a large swath of undeveloped swampland and forest. With no roads, it is the missing link of the Pan-American Highway. Place names The name originates from the language spoken by the Cueva, an Indigenous tribe destroyed by the white European conquistadors during the 16th century. The Tanela River, which flows toward Atrato, was Hispanicized to Darién; the region and its communities took the same name. Santa María la Antigua del Darién, the first city founded in Tierra Firme, also took its name from the river. Subsequentl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mexico
Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and to the east by the Gulf of Mexico. Mexico covers ,Mexico ''''. . making it the world's 13th-largest country by are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mexico City
Mexico City ( es, link=no, Ciudad de México, ; abbr.: CDMX; Nahuatl: ''Altepetl Mexico'') is the capital and largest city of Mexico, and the most populous city in North America. One of the world's alpha cities, it is located in the Valley of Mexico within the high Mexican central plateau, at an altitude of . The city has 16 boroughs or ''demarcaciones territoriales'', which are in turn divided into neighborhoods or ''colonias''. The 2020 population for the city proper was 9,209,944, with a land area of . According to the most recent definition agreed upon by the federal and state governments, the population of Greater Mexico City is 21,804,515, which makes it the sixth-largest metropolitan area in the world, the second-largest urban agglomeration in the Western Hemisphere (behind São Paulo, Brazil), and the largest Spanish language, Spanish-speaking city (city proper) in the world. Greater Mexico City has a gross domestic product, GDP of $411 billion in 2011, which makes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Auditorium
National Auditorium ( es, Auditorio Nacional) is an entertainment center at Paseo de la Reforma #50, Chapultepec in Mexico City. The National Auditorium is considered among the world's best venues by specialized media. It was designed by Mexican architects Pedro Ramírez Vázquez and Gonzalo Ramírez del Sordo, and remodeled by Abraham Zabludovsky and Teodoro González de León. Concerts, art, theatre, dance, and more are hosted at the venue. It also has a small venue available for smaller events, called Auditorio Lunario. The total seating capacity of 10,000. History Constructed in 1952, it was used for volleyball and basketball matches of the 1954 Central American and Caribbean Games and had seen performances of the San Francisco Ballet and New York Philharmonic in 1958. The auditorium was the venue for the gymnastics events at the 1968 Summer Olympics. Since the 1970s, it has been used primarily for international music, song, dance and film festivals, fairs and exhibit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poland
Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populous member state of the European Union. Warsaw is the nation's capital and largest metropolis. Other major cities include Kraków, Wrocław, Łódź, Poznań, Gdańsk, and Szczecin. Poland has a temperate transitional climate and its territory traverses the Central European Plain, extending from Baltic Sea in the north to Sudeten and Carpathian Mountains in the south. The longest Polish river is the Vistula, and Poland's highest point is Mount Rysy, situated in the Tatra mountain range of the Carpathians. The country is bordered by Lithuania and Russia to the northeast, Belarus and Ukraine to the east, Slovakia and the Czech Republic to the south, and Germany to the west. It also shares maritime boundaries with Denmark and Sweden. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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