Miss Dominican Republic Universe

Miss Dominican Republic Universe

Miss Dominican Republic (Spanish: Miss República Dominicana) is a pageant where women ranging from the ages of 18 to 27 compete, each representing a Dominican province, city, or community. In 2003, the pageant was split into four organizations with four separate national pageants: Miss República Dominicana Universo, Miss Mundo Dominicana, Miss Tierra República Dominicana, and Reina Nacional de Belleza Miss República Dominicana to represent Dominican Republic in the four major international pageants namely Miss Universe, Miss World, Miss Earth, and Miss International. In 2011, Reina Nacional de Belleza also obtained the national franchise for Miss World.

Dominican Republic also sends representatives in other minor global pageants such as Miss Intercontinental Pageant, Miss Tourism Queen International, Reina Hispanoamericana, Miss Continente Americano, Miss America Latina, Miss Supranational, Miss Caribbean, Miss Global Cities, Miss Globe International, Miss Global Teen, Miss Bikini International, Miss Asia Pacific, Miss Interamerica, Miss Leisure, Miss Tourism World, and Miss Worldovision.

Famous quotes containing the words republic and/or universe:

“I date the end of the old republic and the birth of the empire to the invention, in the late thirties, of air conditioning. Before air conditioning, Washington was deserted from mid-June to September.... But after air conditioning and the Second World War arrived, more or less at the same time, Congress sits and sits while the presidents—or at least their staffs—never stop making mischief.”
—Gore Vidal (b. 1925)

“The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.”
—David Hume (1711–1776)