The Miss Universe Panama 2023 coronation ceremony will be held at the Teatro Gladys Vidal and Centro de Convenciones Vasco Núñez de Balboa in Panama City, Panama on May 25, 2022. It is the inaugural edition of the national beauty pageant that selects Panama’s Miss Universe candidate.
Currently, Panama has 10 Miss Universe placements including the first runner-up finish in 2002 of Justine Pasek, who later replaced the dethroned titleholder Oxana Fedorova of Russia. The most recent one was in 2021 when Brenda Smith Lezama finished in the Top 16.
Smith was crowned Señorita Panamá 2021 on November 7, 2021 and she represented Panama at Miss Universe 2021 on December 13, 2021. The country was represented in Miss Universe by the winner of Miss Panama from 1952 to 1954, 1964 to 1967, in 1970, in 1971, from 1973 to 1987 and from 2011 to 2015, Señorita Panamá from 1990 to 2007, in 2010 and from 2016 to 2021 and Realmente Bella Señorita Panamá in 2008 and 2009.
There are 10 women competing for the Miss Universe Panama 2022 crown. Here are the candidates:
- Adaluz Perea Vieto, 27, Penonome, Coclé
- Alina López Reyna, 25, Panama City
- Gabriela Alejandra Hernández Gómez, 23, Panama City
- Hazel Nair Quinn García, 22, Panama City
- Lilena Lourdes Rodríguez González, 22,
- María José Pérez Alonzo, 18, Panama City
- Shatzelym Rodríguez Campos, 19, Panama City
- Solaris de la Luna Barba Cañizales, 23, Chitré, Herrera
- Walkiria Isabel Reina Sánchez, 23, Panama City
- Yarielis Noemy Díaz Vega, 18, Panama City

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