CEMEXPO
CEMEXPO ('' Centro de Exposiciones y Convenciones Mitad del Mundo'') is an international convention center located at Manuel Córdova Galarza freeway km. 9. Quito, Ecuador. History It was inaugurated in September 1999 and has a surface area of 85,253 square meters. Events * Miss Universe 2004 * Miss Ecuador 2008 * Miss Ecuador 2010 * Campus Party Ecuador 2015 References External links {{end Convention centers Event venues established in 1999 Buildings and structures completed in 1999 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Miss Universe 2004
Miss Universe 2004, the 53rd Miss Universe pageant, was held on June 1, 2004, at the Centro de Convenciones CEMEXPO in Quito, Ecuador. Jennifer Hawkins of Australia was crowned by Amelia Vega of the Dominican Republic as her successor at the end of the event. This is the 2nd time that Australia has won Miss Universe. 80 contestants competed in this year. Results Placements Contestants 80 contestants competed for the title. Judges Final telecast The judging panel for the final competition included: * Bo Derek - Film actress * Bill Rancic - Winner of the first season of ''The Apprentice'' * Katie Pritz - '' Today Show's'' "You Be The Judge" contest winner * Wendy Fitzwilliam - Miss Universe 1998 from Trinidad and Tobago * Elsa Benítez - International supermodel * Jon Tutolo - President of Trump Model Management * Anne Martin - Vice President of Global Cosmetics and Marketing of Procter & Gamble Cosmetics * Monique Menniken - Supermodel * Petra Nemcova - '' Spor ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Miss Ecuador 2008
The Miss Ecuador 2008 was on March 18, 2008. There were 19 candidates for the national title. The winner was Doménica Saporitti from Guayas. She was crowned by Lugina Cabezas from Pichincha. She represented Ecuador at Miss Universe 2008. Results Placements Special awards Contestants Notes Debuts * Santo Domingo Returns Last compete in: *1999 ** Tungurahua Tungurahua (; from Quichua ''tunguri'' (throat) and ''rahua'' (fire), "Throat of Fire")) is an active stratovolcano located in the Cordillera Oriental of Ecuador. The volcano gives its name to the province of Tungurahua. Volcanic activity res ... Withdraws * Imbabura External links *https://web.archive.org/web/20090217031626/http://www.missecuador.net/home/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=13&Itemid=57 *https://web.archive.org/web/20090218020656/http://globalbeauties.com/news/2008/march/ecu.htm {{Miss Ecuador Miss Ecuador 2008 beauty pageants 2008 in Ecuador Beauty pageants in Ecuador ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Miss Ecuador 2010
Miss Ecuador 2010 was the 60th anniversary of the Miss Ecuador pageant, held on March 25, 2010 in Cemexpo (Quito) Ecuador. Miss Ecuador 2009 Sandra Vinces from Manabí handed over the crown to her successor Lady Mina from Guayas. The winner represented Ecuador at Miss Universe 2010. Results Placements Special awards Judges *Macarena Valarezo *Pamela Cortes *Yuli Maiochi *Karla Caicedo *Daniela Kronfle *Fabricio Célleri Contestants Notes Returns Last Competed in: *1999 File:1999 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The funeral procession of King Hussein of Jordan in Amman; the 1999 İzmit earthquake kills over 17,000 people in Turkey; the Columbine High School massacre, one of the first major school shootin ...: ** Bolívar ** Cañar Withdraws * Azuay * Cotopaxi * El Oro * Esmeraldas * Imbabura * Los Ríos * Santo Domingo Did not compete * Guayas - María José Delgado * Pichincha - Karla Andrade Crossovers *Ana Galarza was Reina de Ambato 2007. ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Figali Convention Center
Figali Convention Center (or Amador Convention Center) is an indoor sports arena, in Fort Amador, Panama City, Panama. The capacity of the arena is 25,000. Built in 2003, as the main venue for the Miss Universe 2003 Pageant, which took place in Panama that year. Since then, it has been used mainly for many concerts and sports events, such as boxing and ice skating. Notable events *On March 8, 2010, Metallica performed a show as part of their Latin American Leg of the " ''World Magnetic Tour'' " . *On April 12, 2011, Shakira performed a sold-out show in the convention center as part of her 2011 "'' Sun Comes Out World Tour''" *On May 24, 2011, American superstar Miley Cyrus performed in the convention center as part of her 2011, ''Gypsy Heart Tour''. Gypsy Heart Tour#Tour dates *On June 14, 2012, American popstar Jennifer Lopez kicked off her first world tour, ''Dance Again World Tour'', at the convention center. *October 15, 2015, Katy Perry with her ''Prismatic World Tour'', it w ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Impact, Muang Thong Thani
Impact, Muang Thong Thani ( th, ศูนย์แสดงสินค้าและการประชุม อิมแพ็ค เมืองทองธานี) is a commercial complex consisting of an arena, convention centre and exhibition halls, located in Muang Thong Thani in Pak Kret District of Nonthaburi Province, a northern suburb of Bangkok, Thailand. It has been considered as the second largest exhibition and convention venue in Asia with an indoor floor space of over 140,000 sqm. Its Challenger Hall is currently the world's largest column-free exhibition hall. The venue hosts over 490 events and welcomes over 15 million visitors each year. History Impact, Muang Thong Thani originated as the Muang Thong Thani Sports Complex, built for the 1998 Asian Games by real estate developer Bangkok Land. Bangkok Land is the developer of Muang Thong Thani, a real estate development envisioned in 1989 as a satellite city of Bangkok. It grew rapidly among Thailan ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Convention Center
A convention center (American English; or conference centre in British English) is a large building that is designed to hold a convention, where individuals and groups gather to promote and share common interests. Convention centers typically offer sufficient floor area to accommodate several thousand attendees. Very large venues, suitable for major trade shows, are sometimes known as exhibition halls. Convention centers typically have at least one auditorium and may also contain concert halls, lecture halls, meeting rooms, and conference rooms. Some large resort area hotels include a convention center. Types * Meeting facilities with lodging: hotels that include their own convention space in addition to accommodation and other related facilities, known as convention hotels. * Meeting facilities without lodging: are convention centers that do not include accommodation; usually located adjacent to or near a hotel(s). * Other: any convention and meeting facilities desi ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Quito
Quito (; qu, Kitu), formally San Francisco de Quito, is the capital city, capital and largest city of Ecuador, with an estimated population of 2.8 million in its urban area. It is also the capital of the province of Pichincha Province, Pichincha. Quito is located in a valley on the eastern slopes of Pichincha Volcano, Pichincha, an active stratovolcano in the Andes, at an elevation of , making it the List of capital cities by altitude, second-highest capital city in the world.Contact Us " TAME. Retrieved on 14 March 2010. Quito is the political and cultural center of Ecuador as the country's major governmental, administrative, and cultural institutions are located within the city. The majority of transnational companies with a presence in Ecuador are headquartered there. It is also one of ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Pichincha Province
Pichincha () is a province of Ecuador located in the northern Sierra region; its capital and largest city is Quito. It is bordered by Imbabura and Esmeraldas to the north, Cotopaxi and Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas to the south, Napo and Sucumbíos to the east, and Esmeraldas and Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas to the west. Prior to 2008, the canton Santo Domingo de los Colorados was part of the Pichincha Province. It has since become its own province, Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas. The province is home to many rose plantations, which make up the bulk of Ecuador's floriculture industry. Administrative divisions The province is divided into eight cantons. See also * * Provinces of Ecuador * Cantons of Ecuador * Centro de Levantamientos Integrados de Recursos Naturales por Sensores Remotos * Santa Lucia Cloud Forest Santa Lucia Cloud Forest ( es, Bosque Nublado Santa Lucía) is a cloud forest reserve, located about 80 km northwest of Quito, in the prov ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Ecuador
Ecuador ( ; ; Quechuan languages, Quechua: ''Ikwayur''; Shuar language, Shuar: ''Ecuador'' or ''Ekuatur''), officially the Republic of Ecuador ( es, República del Ecuador, which literally translates as "Republic of the Equator"; Quechuan languages, Quechua: ''Ikwadur Ripuwlika''; Shuar language, Shuar: ''Ekuatur Nunka''), is a country in northwestern South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and the Pacific Ocean on the west. Ecuador also includes the Galápagos Islands in the Pacific, about west of the mainland. The country's Capital city, capital and largest city is Quito. The territories of modern-day Ecuador were once home to a variety of Indigenous peoples in Ecuador, Indigenous groups that were gradually incorporated into the Inca Empire during the 15th century. The territory was Spanish colonization of the Americas, colonized by Spain during the 16th century, achieving independence in 1820 as part of Gran Colombia, from which it ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Campus Party
Campus Party (CP) is a conference and hackathon. Founded in 1997 as a technology festival and LAN party, the event was first held in Málaga, Spain, and has since been run in Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Paraguay, Singapore, Spain, the Netherlands, Uruguay and USA. The event has evolved into an annual week-long, 24-hour-a-day festival involving online communities, gamers, programmers, bloggers, governments, universities, companies and students and covers technology innovation and electronic entertainment, with an emphasis on free software, programming, astronomy, social media, gaming, green technology, robotics, security networks and computer modeling. History In December 1996 ''EnRED'', a Spanish youth organization, wanted to found a small, private LAN party held at the Benalmádena Youth Center in Andalucía, Spain. Paco Regageles, then director of Channel 100, suggested they expand the event, and promote ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Miss Universe
Miss Universe is an annual international beauty pageant that is run by a United States and Thailand based Miss Universe Organization.Natalie Tadena (July 2, 2015"Donald Trump's Miss USA Pageant Lands on Reelz Cable Channel". ''The Wall Street Journal''. It is one of the most watched pageants in the world with an estimated audience of over 500 million viewers in over 190 territories. Along with Miss World, Miss International, and Miss Earth, Miss Universe is one of the Big Four international beauty pageants. The Miss Universe Organization is currently owned by JKN Global Group. Telemundo has the licensing rights to air the pageant through 2023. The pageant's advocacy is "humanitarian issues and is a voice to affect positive change in the world." The current Miss Universe is Harnaaz Sandhu of India who was crowned on December 13, 2021 in Eilat, Israel. History The title "Miss Universe" was first used by the International Pageant of Pulchritude in 1926. This con ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |