Catalina Duque Abréu (born 20 Sep 1999) is a Colombian model and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned
Miss Colombia 2024. She will represent Colombia at
Miss International 2025
Miss International 2025 will be the 63rd Miss International pageant, to be held on 27 November 2025 in Tokyo, Japan.
Huỳnh Thị Thanh Thủy of Vietnam will crown her successor at the end of the event.
Background Location and date
The ...
competition.
Early life
Catalina Duque was born in Miami, Florida on September 20, 1999, to a Colombian parents from
Medellín
Medellín ( ; or ), officially the Special District of Science, Technology and Innovation of Medellín (), is the List of cities in Colombia, second-largest city in Colombia after Bogotá, and the capital of the department of Antioquia Departme ...
, Antioquia. Her father is the Doctor Carlos Simon Duque Fisher and her mother is Clara Abreu Vélez. She attended high school at The Columbus School in
Envigado
Envigado () is a city and municipality due South of Medellín, Colombia in the department of Antioquia Department, Antioquia. It is located in the Metropolitan Area of the Aburrá Valley. It borders El Poblado, Medellín to the north, Sabaneta, An ...
, Antioquia, and later studied social communication at
EAFIT University
EAFIT University (originally the acronym in Spanish language, Spanish: Escuela de Administración, Finanzas e Instituto Tecnológico, «School of Administration, Finance and Technological Institute») is a private Colombian university located in ...
. In addition to her native language, she is fluent in English and Portuguese.
Pageantry
Señorita Antioquia 2023-2024
Catalina's career in beauty pageants began in June 2023, when she was decreed as the new
Miss Antioquia for the next edition of
Miss Colombia
Miss Colombia (Formally ''Concurso Nacional de Belleza de Colombia'', English: ''"National Beauty Contest of Colombia"'') is the national beauty pageant organization in Colombia.
The current Miss Colombia is Catalina Duque Abréu of Anti ...
pageant (Concurso Nacional de Belleza), that would be carried out during the month of November of the 2023 but after the pageant was cancelled and postponed a year later, having 1 more year her title as sovereign of Antioquia.
Señorita Colombia 2024
In the competition, she stood out as one of the favorite candidates to obtain the title of Miss Colombia 2024 in its 90 years of history, which
Sofía Osío
Sofía Osío Luna (born 27 May 2000) is a Colombian model and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Colombia 2022, Señorita Colombia 2022. She represented Colombia at Miss International 2023 competition.
Early life
Sofía was born i ...
held at that time. Her performance during the course of the contest allowed her to become the winner on the night of November 10, 2024 in the city of
Cartagena as is customary in tradition of the beauty pageant.
After 28 years, her victory gave its department the title number 7 in the history of the
Miss Colombia pageant, a distinction that the department hadn't obtained since
Claudia Elena Vásquez
Miss Colombia (Formally ''Concurso Nacional de Belleza de Colombia'', English: ''"National Beauty Contest of Colombia"'') is the national beauty pageant organization in Colombia.
The current Miss Colombia is Catalina Duque Abréu of Antioq ...
in 1996.
Miss Internacional 2025
Duque will represent her country at Miss International 2025 in Tokyo, Japan.
References
External links
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Colombian female models
1999 births
Living people
Models from Medellín
Colombian people of Spanish descent
Colombian people of Portuguese descent
Colombian people of Irish descent
Colombian people of English descent
Colombian people of Basque descent
Colombian people of Galician descent
Miss International 2025 delegates
Colombian beauty pageant winners