Miss Brazil 2006 () was the 52nd edition of the

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pageant. It was held on 8 April 2006 at Claro Hall in

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and was hosted by Nayla Micherif and Nivaldo Prieto. Carina Beduschi of Santa Catarina crowned her successor Rafaela Zanella of

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at the end of the event. Zanella represented

at the

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pageant and placed in the Top 20. 1st Runner-Up, Maria Cláudia Barreto of

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, represented the country at

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. This year's pageant had

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, as a special guest.

Results

Special Awards

Contestants

The delegates for Miss Brazil 2006 were: *Acre - Maria Cláudia Barreto de Oliveira *Alagoas - Tatiane Maria Bezerra Correia Terêncio *Amapá - Patrícia Trindade Tavares *Amazonas - Thaysa de Souza Neves *Bahia - Juliana Pina Mendonça *Ceará - Carla Medeiros Rocha *Federal District (Distrito Federal) - Ana Cláudia Sandoval Pimenta *Espírito Santo - Lívia Barraque Barbosa *Goiás - Sileimã Alves Pinheiro *Maranhão - Aislanny Silva de Medeiros *Mato Grosso - Vanessa Regina de Jesus *Mato Grosso do Sul - Rhaíssa Espindola Siviero Olmedo *Minas Gerais - Marcela de Almeida Carvalho Duarte *Pará - Nahdia Lopes Rocha *Paraíba - Sarah Azevedo Rodrigues *Paraná - Daiane Hermelinda Carvalho Zanchet *Pernambuco - Rayanna Carvalho de Magalhães *Piauí - Priscila Karinne da Silva Rocha *Rio de Janeiro - Roberta Cesar Manhães Duarte *Rio Grande do Norte - Jeisa Karina de Araújo *Rio Grande do Sul - Rafaela Zanella *Rondônia - Suzana Freire Cavalcante Gomes *Roraima - Érika Vasconcelos Magalhães *Santa Catarina - Beatriz Back Neves *São Paulo - Nicole Bernardes Cardoso *Sergipe - Aisley Karoline Araújo de Souza *Tocantins - Camilla Christie Ribeiro Oliveira

References

External links

Official Miss Brasil Website
{{Miss Brazil states

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