Miss Dominican Republic Universe 2006
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The Miss Universo República Dominicana 2006 took place on December 18, 2005. This year only 24 candidates competed for the national crown. The chosen winner represented the Dominican Republic
Dominican Republic
The Dominican Republic is a nation on the island of La Hispaniola, part of the Greater Antilles archipelago in the Caribbean region. The western third of the island is occupied by the nation of Haiti, making Hispaniola one of two Caribbean islands that are shared by two countries...

 at the Miss Universe 2006
Miss Universe 2006
Miss Universe 2006, the 55th Miss Universe pageant, took place at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, USA. Unlike past events, it was broadcast live on NBC on a Sunday, July 23, 2006, almost two months later than usual....

 pageant which was held in Los Angeles.

Results

Final Results Contestant
Miss Universo República Dominicana 2006
  • Santiago
    Santiago de los Caballeros Province
    Santiago is a province of the Dominican Republic, in the north of the country. Santiago is an intellectual, educational, and cultural center. It is also a major industrial center with rum, textile, cigarette and cigar industries based there. Shoe manufacturing, leather goods, and furniture making...

    - 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....

1st Runner-up
  • Espaillat - Eva Arias
    Eva Arias
    -External links:*...

  • 2nd Runner-up
  • Distrito Nacional
    Distrito Nacional
    The Distrito Nacional is a subdivision of the Dominican Republic enclosing the capital Santo Domingo. It is not within any of the provinces, but is itself counted as a province. Before October 16, 2001, the Distrito Nacional was much larger, including what is now known as Santo Domingo Province....

    - Dawilda González
  • 3rd Runner-up
  • Monseñor Nouel - Martha González
  • 4th Runner-up
  • Santiago Rodríguez - Elizabeth Thomas
  • 5th Runner-up
  • María Trinidad Sánchez - Katia Gutiérrez
  • Top 12 Semi-Finalists
  • Santo Domingo - Paola Torres
  • La Vega - Aimeé Durán
  • San Pedro de Macorís - Arianna Labrada
  • Valverde - Nathalie Espinal Torres
  • La Altagracia - Aimeé Melo
  • La Romana - Tania Medina

  • Special awards

    • Miss Photogenic (voted by press reporters) - Nathalie Espinal Torres (Valverde)
    • Best friend Miss Congeniality (Arianna Labrada Cepeda (San Pedro de Macorís Province)
    • Best Face - Mía Taveras (Santiago)
    • Best Provincial Costume - Mía Taveras (Santiago)
    • Miss Communication - Ana Contreras
      Ana Contreras
      Ana Rita Contreras Sosa was born and grew in Bayaguana, Monte Plata, Dominican Republic. She represented Monte Plata in Miss Dominican Republic 2009 and placed 1st runner-up after representing the province of Barahona in Miss Dominican Republic 2006, in which she placed 13th in the preliminaries...

       (Barahona)
    • Miss Fashion Look - Eva Arias
      Eva Arias
      -External links:*...

       (Espaillat)
    • Miss Fitness - Arianna Labrada (San Pedro de Macorís)
    • Miss Ojos Bonitos - Aimée Durán (La Vega)
    • Miss Piel - Paola Torres (Santo Domingo)
    • Miss Caballera - Katia Gutiérrez (María Trinidad Sánchez)

    Final Competition Scores

    Rep. Gown Swimsuit Average Question
    Santiago 9.641 9.006 9.324 9.44
    Espaillat 9.498 9.541 9.520 9.41
    Distrito Nacional 8.954 9.123 9.039 9.21
    Monseñor Nouel 8.821 8.687 8.754 9.12
    Santiago Rodríguez 8.936 9.001 8.969 9.08
    María Trinidad Sánchez 9.071 8.852 8.962 8.79
    San Pedro de Macorís 8.915 8.930 8.863
    La Vega 8.425 8.499 8.462
    Puerto Plata 7.976 7.861 7.919
    Valverde 7.821 7.830 7.826
    La Altagracia 7.645 7.931 7.788
    La Romana 7.231 8.103 7.667


         Winner
         1st Runner Up
         2nd Runner Up
         3rd Runner Up
         4th Runner Up
         5th Runner Up
         Top 12



    Delegates

    Province, Community Contestant Age Height Hometown
    Barahona Ana Rita Contreras Sosa  21 Bayaguana
    Bayaguana
    Bayaguana is a municipality of the Monte Plata province in the Dominican Republic.As of the Dominican Republic's 2002 census, the municipality had a total population of 33,122 inhabitants, of which 19,351 resided in urban areas and 13,771 in rural areas.Bayaguana was founded in 1606, when Spain...

    Com. Dom. EU Massiel Hernández Adames 20 Philadelphia
    Distrito Nacional
    Distrito Nacional
    The Distrito Nacional is a subdivision of the Dominican Republic enclosing the capital Santo Domingo. It is not within any of the provinces, but is itself counted as a province. Before October 16, 2001, the Distrito Nacional was much larger, including what is now known as Santo Domingo Province....

    Dawilda González Cid 22 Santo Domingo
    Santo Domingo
    Santo Domingo, known officially as Santo Domingo de Guzmán, is the capital and largest city in the Dominican Republic. Its metropolitan population was 2,084,852 in 2003, and estimated at 3,294,385 in 2010. The city is located on the Caribbean Sea, at the mouth of the Ozama River...

    1
    Espaillat Eva Carolina Arias Viñas  20 Moca
    Moca, Dominican Republic
    Moca is the capital of Espaillat province in the Dominican Republic.Moca is located 11 miles/18 kilometers away from the country’s second biggest city, Santiago De Los Caballeros. Moca is also known for its many great crops and friendly people....

    La Altagracia Aimeé Elaine Melo Hernández 21 Santo Domingo
    Santo Domingo
    Santo Domingo, known officially as Santo Domingo de Guzmán, is the capital and largest city in the Dominican Republic. Its metropolitan population was 2,084,852 in 2003, and estimated at 3,294,385 in 2010. The city is located on the Caribbean Sea, at the mouth of the Ozama River...

    La Romana Tania Yolanda Medina Collado  23 La Romana
    La Vega Aimeé Carolina Durán Rodríguez 19 Concepción de La Vega
    Concepción de La Vega
    La Vega, or Concepción de La Vega is the largest city and municipality of the central Dominican Republic and the third of the whole country...

    María Trinidad Sánchez Katia Gutiérrez Balbuena 21 Trinidad Sánchez Nagua
    Monseñor Nouel Martha Henriqueta González 22 Bonao
    Bonao
    Bonao is the capital of Monseñor Nouel province, Dominican Republic. It is located in the center of the country, to the northwest of the national capital Santo Domingo.The city is known as "Villa De Las Hortensias" - the town of hortensias...

    Monte Cristi Anibelka Clase Jiménez 23 Santo Domingo
    Santo Domingo
    Santo Domingo, known officially as Santo Domingo de Guzmán, is the capital and largest city in the Dominican Republic. Its metropolitan population was 2,084,852 in 2003, and estimated at 3,294,385 in 2010. The city is located on the Caribbean Sea, at the mouth of the Ozama River...

    Monte Plata
    Monte Plata Province
    Monte Plata is a province of the Dominican Republic, and also the name of its capital city. It was split from San Cristóbal in 1992.-Municipalities and municipal districts:...

    Mariela Joselin Rosario Jiménez 24 Santo Domingo
    Santo Domingo
    Santo Domingo, known officially as Santo Domingo de Guzmán, is the capital and largest city in the Dominican Republic. Its metropolitan population was 2,084,852 in 2003, and estimated at 3,294,385 in 2010. The city is located on the Caribbean Sea, at the mouth of the Ozama River...

    Puerto Plata Hismelda Margarita Upia de Rosario 22 San Felipe de Puerto Plata
    San Felipe de Puerto Plata
    San Felipe de Puerto Plata, often referred to as simply Puerto Plata, is the capital of the Dominican province Puerto Plata.The city is famous for resorts such as Playa Dorada and Costa Dorada, located east of San Felipe de Puerto Plata. There are a total of 100,000 hotel beds in the city.The only...

    Salcedo Dawelly Domínguez Hernández 18 Santo Domingo
    Santo Domingo
    Santo Domingo, known officially as Santo Domingo de Guzmán, is the capital and largest city in the Dominican Republic. Its metropolitan population was 2,084,852 in 2003, and estimated at 3,294,385 in 2010. The city is located on the Caribbean Sea, at the mouth of the Ozama River...

    San Cristóbal Yohana Martínez Castro 18 San Cristóbal
    San Cristóbal, Dominican Republic
    San Cristóbal is a municipality and the capital of the San Cristóbal province in the Dominican Republic. Within the municipality there is one municipal district : Hato Damas.-Sectors:*5 de abril*Canastica*El Pomier...

    San José de Ocoa Lila del Carmen León Guzmán 19 San José de Ocoa
    San José de Ocoa
    San José de Ocoa is a province of the Dominican Republic, and also the name of the province's capital city. It was split from Peravia on January 1, 2000...

    San Juan
    San Juan Province (Dominican Republic)
    San Juan is a province of the Dominican Republic. Before 1961 it was known as Benefactor.-Municipalities and municipal districts:The province as of June 20 2006 is divided into the following municipalities and municipal districts within them:*Bohechío**Arroyo Cano **Yaque *El Cercado**Batista...

    Kadulis Oviedo Merán 20 Santo Domingo
    Santo Domingo
    Santo Domingo, known officially as Santo Domingo de Guzmán, is the capital and largest city in the Dominican Republic. Its metropolitan population was 2,084,852 in 2003, and estimated at 3,294,385 in 2010. The city is located on the Caribbean Sea, at the mouth of the Ozama River...

    San Pedro de Macorís Arianna Labrada Cepeda 20 San Pedro de Macorís
    San Pedro de Macorís
    San Pedro de Macorís is a municipality and the capital of the San Pedro de Macorís province in the Dominican Republic.-Demographics:...

    Santiago
    Santiago de los Caballeros Province
    Santiago is a province of the Dominican Republic, in the north of the country. Santiago is an intellectual, educational, and cultural center. It is also a major industrial center with rum, textile, cigarette and cigar industries based there. Shoe manufacturing, leather goods, and furniture making...

    Mía Lourdes Taveras López
    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....

    19 Santiago de los Caballeros
    Santiago de los Caballeros
    Santiago de los Caballeros is a city in the Dominican Republic. Founded in 1495 during the first wave of European colonization of the New World, today Santiago is the second largest metropolis in the Dominican Republic, located in the north-central region of the Republic known as Cibao valley...

    Santiago Rodríguez Elizabeth Thomas 21 San Ignacio de Sabaneta
    San Ignacio de Sabaneta
    San Ignacio de Sabaneta is the capital and a municipality of Santiago Rodriguez in the northwestern part of the Dominican Republic. It is usually called only Sabaneta or Santiago Rodríguez.-Population:...

    Santo Domingo Paola María Torres Cohén 20 Santiago de los Caballeros
    Santiago de los Caballeros
    Santiago de los Caballeros is a city in the Dominican Republic. Founded in 1495 during the first wave of European colonization of the New World, today Santiago is the second largest metropolis in the Dominican Republic, located in the north-central region of the Republic known as Cibao valley...

    Valverde Nathalie Espinal Torres 20 Santiago Rodriguez
    Santiago Rodríguez
    Santiago Rodríguez is a province of the Dominican Republic. It was split from Monte Cristi in 1948.-Location:The Santiago Rodríguez province has the Monte Cristi and Valverde provinces to the north, the Santiago province to the east, the San Juan and Elías Piña provinces to the south and the...


    • * Withdrew
    • ** Had Accident
    • *** Disqualified

    • 1 Dawilda was born and raise in Hato Mayor del Rey
      Hato Mayor del Rey
      Hato Mayor del Rey is the capital of Hato Mayor province, Dominican Republic. It is bordered on the North by the municipalities of El Valle and Sabana de la Mar, on the South by the province San Pedro de Macoris, on the East by the province El Seibo and on the West by the municipality of Bayaguana,...

       but she went to the capital to go to college at Autonomous University of Santo Domingo.


    Trivia

    • In the pageant there were candidates that had an accident, Withdrew and Disqualified before the pageant started
    • Also Santiago Rodríguez entered in Miss Dominican Republic 2005.
    • Miss Epaillat, Eva Arias
      Eva Arias
      -External links:*...

      , would later become Miss Dominican Republic 2010
      Miss Dominican Republic 2010
      The Miss Universo República Dominicana 2010 was celebrated on April 17, 2010 in the Teatro La Fiesta, Hotel Jaragua in Santo Domingo. The winner will represent Dominican Republic in Miss Universe 2010. The Miss RD Continente Americano will enter Miss Continente Américano 2010 and the Miss RD...

      .

    Preliminaries Scores

    Province Swimsuit Evening Gown Interview Average
    Distrito Nacional 9.421 9.758 9.461 9.547
    Espaillat 9.445 9.743 9.154 9.447
    Santiago 9.345 9.420 9.242 9.336
    Santiago Rodríguez 9.453 9.041 9.097 9.197
    La Vega 8.568 8.983 9.912 9.154
    Monseñor Nouel 9.276 9.012 8.973 9.087
    San Pedro de Macorís 8.812 9.214 9.199 9.075
    María Trinidad Sánchez 9.152 9.214 8.840 9.069
    Valverde 8.746 8.703 8.821 8.757
    La Romana 8.913 8.372 8.861 8.715
    La Altagracia 8.596 8.468 8.610 8.558
    Puerto Plata 7.906 8.643 9.051 8.533
    Barahona 8.248 8.403 8.346 8.332
    Com. Dom. Estados Unidos 8.102 8.014 8.200 8.105
    San José de Ocoa 7.932 7.942 7.914 7.929
    San Cristóbal 7.843 7.761 7.823 7.809
    Monte Plata 7.732 7.666 7.617 7.672
    Santo Domingo 7.581 7.831 7.231 7.548
    Monte Cristi 7.264 7.504 7.454 7.407
    San Juan 7.214 7.203 7.423 7.280
    Salcedo 7.068 7.165 7.214 7.149

    External links

    1. Miss RD Provincial Costumes
    2. http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewPicture&friendID=258179945&albumId=800674
    3. http://www.voy.com/210036/
    4. http://foro.univision.com/univision/board/message?board.id=miss&message.id=226031&page=1
    5. http://foro.univision.com/univision/board/message?board.id=missrepublicadominicana&message.id=3&view=by_date_ascending&page=6
    6. http://mundomiss.blogspot.com/2005/12/miss-republicana-dominicana-2006-ma.html
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