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| Type | Women's beauty pageant |
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| Country represented | Nicaragua |
| Qualifies for | Miss Universe |
| First edition | 2024 |
| Current titleholder | Itza Castillo Managua |
Public Consultant | Óscar Internacional |
CEO/President | Javier Pastora |
National Director | Daniel Guevara |
Operational Director | Alexis Gómez |
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| Predecessor | Miss Nicaragua |
| Website | missuniversenic |
Miss Universe Nicaragua orMiss Nicaragua is a beauty pageant and organization that selects Nicaragua's official representative toMiss Universe.
The reining Miss Universe Nicaragua 2025 isItza Castillo fromManagua, who was crowned September 4, 2025 in Miami, Florida, United States byGeyssell García.
On May 11, 2025, the Miss Universe announced that Miss Universe Nicaragua will be organizing by the previousMiss Nicaragua 2009Indiana Sánchez who will be organizing the pageant across this year. Later on June Indiana quite from the role as national director and Daniel Guevara was announced as the new national director for Nicaragua on 2025.
From 1955 to 2023,Miss Nicaragua held the national franchise for Miss Universe, wherein it was responsible for selecting Nicaraguans to represent Nicaragua and compete at the annualMiss Universe pageant. Under Miss Nicaragua, Nicaragua representatives to the Miss Universe pageant were crowned with the title ofSeñorita Nicaragua from 1955 to 1999, andMiss Nicaragua from 2001 to 2023.[citation needed]
In September 2024, the Miss Universe Organization introduced a new franchise under Miss Universe Nicaragua. This is an organization outside Nicaragua. Since November 2023 after Sheynnis Palacios, Miss Nicaragua 2023 won the Miss Universe 2023 held in San Salvador, El Salvador Ortega's government cancelled the pageant in Nicaragua and getting out national directors from the previous organization.[citation needed]
| Year | Department | Miss Universe Nicaragua | Venue | Delegates | Special awards |
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| 2025 | Managua | Itza Castillo | Florida, United States | 13 | |
| 2024 | Chontales | Geyssell García | Mexico City, Mexico | Designed |
| Year | Miss Universe Nicaragua | Age | State | ||
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| Placement at Miss Universe | Special award(s) | ||||
 2026 | TBA | ||||
 2025 | Itza Castillo | 29 | Managua | Top 30 | |
 2024 | Geyssell García | 29 | Chontales | Top 30 |
| Year | Miss Nicaragua | Age | State | |||
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| Placement at Miss Universe | Special award(s) | |||||
| 2023 | Sheynnis Palacios | 23 | Carazo | Miss Universe 2023 | ||
| 2022 | Norma Huembes | 24 | Carazo | Unplaced | ||
| 2021 | Allison Wassmer | 26 | Managua | Unplaced | ||
| 2020 | Ana Marcelo | 24 | Estelí | Top 21 | ||
| 2019 | Inés López | 19 | Managua | Unplaced | ||
| 2018 | Adriana Paniagua | 23 | Chinandega | Unplaced | ||
| 2017 | Berenice Quezada | 24 | RACCS | Unplaced | ||
| 2016 | Marina Jacoby | 21 | Matagalpa | Unplaced | ||
| 2015 | Daniela Torres | 25 | Managua | Unplaced |
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| 2014 | Marline Barberena | 27 | Chinandega | Unplaced | ||
| 2013 | Nastassja Bolívar | 25 | Carazo | Top 16 |
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| 2012 | Farah Eslaquit | 21 | Masaya | Unplaced |
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| 2011 | Adriana Dorn | 24 | Managua | Unplaced | ||
| 2010 | Scharllette Allen | 18 | RACCS | Unplaced | ||
| 2009 | Indiana Sánchez | 22 | Managua | Unplaced |
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| 2008 | Thelma Rodríguez | 19 | Chinandega | Unplaced | ||
| 2007 | Xiomara Blandino | 22 | Managua | Top 10 | ||
| 2006 | Cristiana Frixione | 22 | Managua | Unplaced | ||
| 2005 | Daniela Clerk | 23 | Managua | Unplaced | ||
| 2004 | Marifely Argüello | 22 | Managua | Unplaced | ||
| 2003 | Claudia Salmerón | 25 | Managua | Unplaced | ||
| 2002 | Marianela Lacayo | 21 | Managua | Unplaced | ||
| 2001 | Ligia Argüello | 21 | Managua | Unplaced | ||
| 2000 | No competition held | |||||
| 1999 | Liliana Pilarte | 23 | Río San Juan | Unplaced | ||
| 1998 | Claudia Alaniz | 21 | Managua | Unplaced | ||
| 1997 | No competition held | |||||
| 1996 | Luz María Sánchez Herdocia | – | Managua | Did not compete | ||
| 1995 | Linda Clerk | 22 | Managua | Unplaced | ||
| 1994 | No competition held | |||||
| 1993 | Luisa Urcuyo | 18 | Rivas | Unplaced | ||
| 1992 | Ida Delaney | Managua | Unplaced | |||
| 1991 | Ana Sofía Pereira | Managua | Unplaced | |||
| No competition held between 1980–1990 | ||||||
| 1979 | Patricia Pineda | – | Rivas | Withdrew from the competition | ||
| 1978 | Claudia Herrera | Masaya | Unplaced | |||
| 1977 | Beatriz Obregón | 18 | Rivas | Top 12 | ||
| 1976 | Ivania Navarro | Matagalpa | Unplaced | |||
| 1975 | Alda Maritza Sánchez | Masaya | Unplaced | |||
| 1974 | Francis Duarte | León | Unplaced | |||
| 1973 | Ana Saravia | 18 | Managua | Unplaced | ||
| 1972 | No competition held | |||||
| 1971 | Xiomara Paguaga | 20 | Managua | Unplaced | ||
| 1970 | Graciela Salazar | – | León | Unplaced | ||
| 1969 | Soraya Herrera | 18 | Managua | Unplaced | ||
| 1968 | Margine Davidson | 20 | Matagalpa | Unplaced | ||
| No competition held between 1964–1967 | ||||||
| 1963 | Leda Sánchez | 20 | Carazo | Unplaced | ||
| No competition held between 1956–1962 | ||||||
| 1955 | Rosa Argentina Lacayo † | 19 | Managua | Unplaced |
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| Department | Titles | Years |
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| Managua | 20 |
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| Carazo | 4 |
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| Chinandega | 3 |
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| León |
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| Masaya |
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| Matagalpa |
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| Rivas |
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| South Caribbean Coast Autonomous Region | 2 |
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| Chontales | 1 |
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| Estelí |
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| Río San Juan |
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Beauty pageants inNicaragua | ||
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Nicaraguan placements inMiss Universe | ||
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| Miss Universe |  | |
| Top 10-12 |
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| Top 16 | ||
| Top 21-30 |
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