Miss Grand Costa Rica


Miss Grand Costa Rica is a San José-based female national beauty pageant in Costa Rica, organized separately for in first time in 2022 by the, with Erick Solis as the president. The winner of the contest represents the country at its parent competition, the Miss Grand International pageant. Before 2022, the competition license belonged to different organizers, such as the Reinas de Costa Rica organization and the Miss Costa Rica organization. Most of the country's representatives at the Miss Grand International pageant during such a period were appointed without organizing the respective pageant.
Since its first participation at Miss Grand International in 2014, Costa Rica has never won the contest but has a record of five placements, including the top 10 finalists in 2015 and 2021, and the top 20 finalists in 2017, 2018, and 2019.
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History

Costa Rica has joined the Miss Grand International pageant annually since 2014. However, most of its representatives were appointed to participate without organizing the national contest. In 2020, two years after taking over the franchise from the Reinas de Costa Rica organization, the organizer team related to the Miss Costa Rica organization, led by Gerson Jiménez, ran the pageant reality show "The Finalists," which was aired on Telenovela, to determine country representatives for Miss Grand International, Top Model of the World, Miss Asia Pacific International, and Miss International. The pageant delegates were chosen through regional casting in various locations throughout the country, including Guanacaste, Limón, Alajuela, and San José, with Gabriela Jara Cordero of Limón being chosen as the country representative for the Miss Grand International 2020 pageant, outperforming the other 13 national aspirants.
Previously, the franchise belonged to Olais Antonio Padilla and the Reinas de Costa Rica organization in 2014 and 2015 - 2017, respectively. Padilla planned to organize the first Miss Grand Costa Rica contest the following year after sending a delegate to the Miss Grand International 2014 but lost the franchise to the Reinas de Costa Rica organization before completing such a willingness.
In 2022, after four consecutive years of serving as the national licensee, Jiménez lost the franchise to the organization chaired by Erick Solis,, which conducted the inaugural edition of Miss Grand Costa Rica that year. The contest was held at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre in San José, featuring 12 national finalists, who were directly chosen to compete by the central organizer through online screening, of whom a 28-year-old girl from Guanacaste, Brenda Muñoz, was named the winner.
Costa Rica has five placements in the Miss Grand International pageant, including the top 10 finalists in 2015 and 2021, and the top 20 finalists in 2017, 2018, and 2019.

Editions

The following list is the edition detail of the Miss Grand Costa Rica contest, since its inception in 2022.

Date and venue

EditionDateFinal venueHost provinceEntrants
1stEugene O'Neill Theatre, San JoséSan José12
[|2nd]Auditorio Nacional Museo de los NiñosSan José25

Competition result

YearEditionWinner1st runner-up2nd runner-up
20221stGuanacaste – Brenda MuñozPuerto Viejo – Maria AlejandraSan Isidro de El General – Iabella Oldenburg
[|2025]2ndHeredia – Kristel GómezSan José – Aylin MonteroPuntarenas – Karla Sequeira

Representatives at Miss Grand International

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Miss Grand Costa Rica 2025

Miss Grand Costa Rica 2025 was the 2nd edition of Miss Grand Costa Rica pageant, held on 28 August 2025, at the Auditorio Nacional Museo de los Niños, San José, Costa Rica. Twenty-five contestants from all 7 provinces of Costa Rica competed for the title.
The contest was won by a 31-year-old Kristel Gómez, representing the Heredia Province. Kristel will represent the country at the Miss Grand International 2025 pageant, to be held in Thailand on 16 October 2025.
The event was hosted by a Costa Rican television personality Adriana Víquez and a Dominican politician and internet personality Bray Vargas.

Results

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Candidates

  1. Limón I – Ritchelle Avendaño
  2. Heredia I – Ana Carolina Artavia
  3. Alajuela I – Marisol
  4. Cartago I – Dixiana Burgos
  5. San José I – Melany Bedoya
  6. Heredia II – Ashley Campos
  7. Guanacaste I – Malu Fajardo
  8. Limón II – Candy Gaitan
  9. Heredia III – Kristel Gómez
  10. Limón III – Ashley Hernandez
  11. Cartago II – Monserrath Jiménez
  12. Heredia IV – Joheysi Lopez
  13. Cartago III – Mariana Marín Castro
  14. Alajuela II – Kristel Mongee
  15. San José II – Aylin Montero
  16. Guanacaste II – Sugey Obando
  17. Puntarenas I – Kiara Ramirez Garro
  18. Guanacaste III – Gabriella Reyes
  19. Heredia V – Luzmery Rodriguez
  20. Puntarenas II – Karla Sequeira
  21. San José III – Sofi Solano
  22. Puntarenas III– Tatiana Vallejos Rojas
  23. Limón IV – Shanill Veach
  24. Guanacaste IV – Kendra Valeska Villalobos
  25. Cartago IV – Jimena Zuñiga Herrera