Juanita Urrea

{{short description|Colombian model and Miss Colombia International 2024}}

{{Infobox pageant titleholder

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| birth_name=Juanita Urrea Posada

| birth_date={{Birth date and age|2000|9|13}}

| birth_place=Armenia, Quindío, Colombia

| alma mater = ICESI University

| title= Miss Colombia International 2024

| competitions={{ubl|Miss Colombia 2022|(3rd Runner-Up)|Miss International 2024|(Unplaced)}}

| height={{height|m=1.79}}

| eye_color=Brown

| hair_color=Brown

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Juanita Urrea Posada (born September 13, 2000) is a Colombian industrial engineer, model and beauty pageant titleholder who was the 3rd Runner-Up of Miss Colombia 2022. She represented Colombia at Miss International 2024.{{Cite web |title=By designation of the National Beauty Contest®, Juanita Urrea is Colombia in Miss International |url=https://www.instagram.com/reel/C1c8dp4uhjI/?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA== |access-date=2023-12-30 |website=www.instagram.com}}

Early life

Juanita Urrea was born in Armenia, Quindío on September 13, 2000. She is the only child of Andrea Posada and the industrial engineer Alonso Urrea. During her childhood and youth she lived in Buenaventura, Cartago and finally Cali where she finished her high school studies at the Colegio Hispanoamericano.{{Cite web |title=De Armenia, la señorita Valle al Concurso Nacional de la Belleza en Cartagena |url=https://www.elquindiano.com/noticia/36622/de-armenia-la-senorita-valle-al-reinado-nacional-del-cafe |access-date=2023-12-30 |website=El Quindiano |language=es-ES}}{{Cite web |last=Tiempo |first=Casa Editorial El |date=2022-08-03 |title=Conozca detalles de Juanita Urrea Posada, la nueva Señorita Valle |url=https://www.eltiempo.com/colombia/cali/quien-es-la-nueva-senorita-valle-692305 |access-date=2023-12-30 |website=El Tiempo |language=spanish}}

Later she completed her university studies at the ICESI University in the undergraduate degree in Industrial Engineering. In addition to her native Spanish, she speaks fluent English.{{Cite web |last=FARÁNDULA |first=REDACCIÓN |date=2022-11-02 |title=Conoce a la Señorita Valle al CNB 2022: Juanita Urrea |url=https://www.eluniversal.com.co/farandula/conoce-a-la-senorita-valle-al-cnb-2022-juanita-urrea-BH7449003 |access-date=2023-12-30 |website=www.eluniversal.com.co |language=ES-es}}{{Cite web |title=Juanita Urrea Posada {{!}} Señorita Colombia |url=https://www.srtacolombia.org/index.php/es/candidatas/concurso-2022/juanita-urrea-posada |access-date=2023-12-31 |website=www.srtacolombia.org}}

Pageantry

= Miss Valle 2022 =

Juanita was designated as Miss Valle after an evaluative process of interviews, photographs and general and intellectual preparation.{{Cite web |last=País |first=El |date=2022-08-09 |title="Esto ha sido maravilloso": Juanita Urrea, la nueva señorita Valle |url=https://www.elpais.com.co/entretenimiento/esto-ha-sido-maravilloso-juanita-urrea-la-nueva-senorita-valle.html |access-date=2023-12-30 |website=Noticias de Cali, Valle y Colombia - Periodico: Diario El País |language=spanish}}{{Cite web |last=Chavaco |first=Michelle |date=2022-09-23 |title=Miss Valle, ambassador of education |url=https://www.valledelcauca.gov.co/publicaciones/76222/senorita-valle-embajadora-de-la-educacion/ |website=Gobernación del Valle del Cauca}}

= Miss Colombia 2022 =

On November 13, 2022, the final of Miss Colombia (National Beauty Contest) was held in Cartagena where Juanita achieved the title of Segunda Princesa Nacional (3rd Runner-Up), with Sofía Osío of Atlántico being the winner of the contest.{{Cite web |title=La segunda princesa del CNB es del departamento del Valle Juanita Urrea archivos |url=https://revistamomentos.co/tag/la-segunda-princesa-del-cnb-es-del-departamento-del-valle-juanita-urrea/ |access-date=2023-12-30 |website=Revista Momentos |language=es}}

= Miss International 2024 =

After the 2023 edition of the Miss Colombia was canceled, which would be held as usual in November of the same year in the city of Cartagena,{{Cite web |last=Caracol |first=Noticias |date=2023-10-08 |title=¿Qué hay detrás de la cancelación del Concurso Nacional de Belleza 2023? Esto dijo Raimundo Angulo |url=https://noticias.caracoltv.com/entretenimiento/que-hay-detras-de-la-cancelacion-del-concurso-nacional-de-belleza-2023-esto-dijo-raimundo-angulo-rg10 |access-date=2023-12-30 |website=Noticias Caracol |language=es}} On December 29, 2023, the contest's board of directors made the decision to designate Juanita Urrea as the representative of Colombia in the Japanese Miss International contest for the 2024 edition.