Miss Continente Americano, also known in English as Miss American Continent, is an international beauty contest held annually, held for the first time in 2006. More than 20 contestants from mostly Latin America

Latin America

Latin America is a region of the Americas where Romance languages  – particularly Spanish and Portuguese, and variably French – are primarily spoken. Latin America has an area of approximately 21,069,500 km² , almost 3.9% of the Earth's surface or 14.1% of its land surface area...

n countries participate every year.

Titleholders

Year	Country	Miss Continente Americano	Venue
2011 Miss Continente Americano 2011 Miss Continente Americano 2011 was the 6th annual contest of Miss Continente Americano. It was held in Guayaquil, Ecuador on October 22, 2011. At the end of the event Giuliana Zevallos, Miss Continente Americano 2010 from Peru crowned her successor Claudia Schiess from Ecuador.-Placements:-Special...		Claudia Schiess Claudia Schiess Claudia Elena Schiess Fretz is an Ecuadorian beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Ecuador 2011 and represented her country in the 2011 Miss Universe pageant...	Guayaquil Guayaquil Guayaquil , officially Santiago de Guayaquil , is the largest and the most populous city in Ecuador,with about 2.3 million inhabitants in the city and nearly 3.1 million in the metropolitan area, as well as that nation's main port... , Ecuador Ecuador Ecuador , officially the Republic of Ecuador is a representative democratic republic in South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and by the Pacific Ocean to the west. It is one of only two countries in South America, along with Chile, that do not have a border...
2010 Miss Continente Americano 2010 Miss Continente Americano 2010, the 5th edition of the Miss Continente Americano pageant, was held in Guayaquil, Ecuador on September 18, 2010...	Peru	Giuliana Zevallos Giuliana Zevallos Giuliana Zevallos Roncagliolo is a beauty queen who was crowned Miss Continente Americano 2010 on September 18, 2010, becoming that pageant's very first titleholder from her country....	Guayaquil, Ecuador
2009 Miss Continente Americano 2009 Miss Continente Americano 2009, the 4th Miss Continente Americano pageant, was held in Guayaquil, Ecuador on September 26, 2009. At the end of the event, Lupita González, Miss Continente Americano 2008 from Mexico, crowned Lina Mosquera from Colombia as the brand new Miss Continente...	Colombia	Lina Mosquera Lina Mosquera Lina Mosquera is a Colombian Model and titleholder who currently holds the title of Miss Continente Americano 2009.-Miss Colombia 2008:On November 17, 2008 Lina competed at the Miss Colombia 2008 pageant representing the department of Chocó...	Guayaquil, Ecuador
2008 Miss Continente Americano 2008 Miss Continente Americano 2008, the 3rd Miss Continente Americano pageant, was held in Guayaquil, Ecuador on September 6, 2008. Marianne Cruz, Miss Continente Americano 2007 from the Dominican Republic, crowned Lupita González from Mexico as the brand new Miss Continente...	Mexico	Lupita González Lupita González Maria Guadalupe González Gallegos is a Mexican beauty pageant contestant. She was born in Tepatitlan de Morelos, Jalisco...	Guayaquil, Ecuador
2007 Miss Continente Americano 2007 Miss Continente Americano 2007, the 2nd Miss Continente Americano pageant, was held in Guayaquil, Ecuador on June 30, 2007. Mía Taveras, Miss Continente Americano 2006 from the Dominican Republic, crowned Marianne Cruz, also from the Dominican Republic, as the brand new Miss Continente...	Dominican Republic	Marianne Cruz Marianne Cruz Marianne Cruz González is the 2008 Miss Dominican Republic and was the second runner-up in the Miss Universe 2008. She was born in Salcedo, Dominican Republic.- Personal life :...	Guayaquil, Ecuador
2006 Miss Continente Americano 2006 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...	Dominican Republic	Mía Taveras Mía Taveras Mía Lourdes Taveras López was Miss Dominican Republic Universe 2006. She competed in the Miss Universe 2006 beauty pageant in Los Angeles, California on July 23, 2006....	Guayaquil, Ecuador

By Country Tally

Anyone who follows the Olympic Games

Olympic Games

The Olympic Games is a major international event featuring summer and winter sports, in which thousands of athletes participate in a variety of competitions. The Olympic Games have come to be regarded as the world’s foremost sports competition where more than 200 nations participate...

or other sporting events will be familiar with the concept of the Medal Table, which ranks countries based on their first (gold), second (silver) and third (bronze) place finishes. Below is a similar table of the top rankings for the Miss Continente Americano pageant, based on all results from the first event in 2006 to the most recent competition in 2010.

Rank	Country	Miss Continente Americano	1st RU	2nd RU	Semifinalists	Total
1	Dominican Republic	2	1	0	1	4
2	Ecuador	1	1	2	0	4
2	Mexico	1	1	2	0	4
4	Peru	1	0	0	2	3
5	Colombia	1	0	0	2	3
6	Venezuela	0	1	1	3	5
7	Brazil	0	1	1	3	5
8	Puerto Rico	0	1	0	1	2
9	Uruguay	0	1	0	0	1
10	Panama	0	0	0	2	2

External links

• Miss Continente Americano Official Website