Miss Grand Chile is a national female

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that has been held annually since 2016, founded by Boris Cabrera of Latin Scouting y CBC Producciones, aiming to select country representatives to compete in its parent international contest,

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. In 2019, the pageant license was consigned to Keno Manzur, and subsequently transferred to Cristian Chanaca and Gabriel Alfonsino in 2021, Chanaca later withdrew from the director team in 2023. Since first participation in 2014, the only one placement of Chile representative at

is top 20 finalists, obtained by "Francisca Lavandero" in 2019. The reigning Miss Grand Chile is "Vanessa Echeverría" of

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, who was crowned at the national contest held at Criss Chacana Model Agency in

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on 25 September 2021 and later represented the country at

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, but got non-placement.

Background

History

joined Miss Grand International for the first time in the 2014 edition in

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, represented by 21-year-old model ''Karla Bovet Quidel'', then absent for two years consecutively. Later in 2017, Latin Scouting y CBC Producciones – headed by Boris Cabrera – the organizer of the Reinas de Chile, had obtained the franchise and consequently ran the inaugural edition of the ''Miss Grand Chile'' contest at the Music Palace Event Center in

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on September 22. The contest featured nine national finalists representing

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, Concepción, La Florida,

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, and

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, of whom Nicole Ebner from La Florida was named ''Miss Grand Chile 2017'' and later participated at

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but got a non-placement. In addition to crowning such the winner, the Miss Supranational Chile 2017 title was also awarded to ''Konstanza Schmidt'' of

. However, since the contest was not held in the following year, the licensee assigned ''María Flores'', one of the 2017 finalists from Concepción, to participate at the international event in

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instead. The pageant was not held in 2020 due to the

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caused the organizer to appoint the candidate to take part in the 2020 international edition in

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instead. Later in 2021, Manzur relinquished the franchise to ''Cristian Chanaca'' and ''Gabriel Alfonsino'', who have been organizing the contest annually since then.

Location and date

Titleholders

;Winner gallery File:Paula Henríquez.png, Miss Grand Chile 2023
Paula Henríquez File:Karina Perez Gres.png, Miss Grand Chile 2022
Karina Perez Gres File:Vanessa Echeverría.png, Miss Grand Chile 2021
Vanessa Echeverría File:Karla Bovet Quidel.png, Miss Grand Chile 2014
Karla Bovet Quidel

Participating regions and cities

The following list is the Miss Grand Chile participating regions and cities, as well as the competition results.

References

External links

* {{Miss Grand International titleholders * Beauty pageants in Chile Recurring events established in 2017 2017 establishments in Chile Chilean awards