Mónica Castaño Agudelo (born 5 June 1989) is a Colombian beauty queen and model.

''Colombia's Next Top Model''

Castaño was selected to be one of the final fifteen contestants of the

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of '' Colombia's Next Top Model''. She was voted as one of the four finalists by the Colombian public with 17.8% of the vote, becoming one of the "Chicas Águila" for 2013 along with Anggie Bryan, Claudia Castro and Lis Henao. She beat out Bryan, Castro and Henao to win the competition. Her prizes included $100,000,000 in cash and a cover of ''

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'' magazine.

''Finearom''

She is currently working as a commercial director at the company Finearom.

Pageantry

Castaño represented

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at the Señorita Valle 2011 pageant, where she was the virreina. She is Miss Grand Colombia 2014 and Miss Orito Ingi-Ande 2014. In October 2014, she represented

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at the Miss Grand International 2014 pageant in

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, where she finished as the fourth-runner-up to

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. In the Miss Supranational 2015 pageant, she finished as the second runner-up to Stephania Stegman of

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