19 Miss Angola Universo 2024 candidates competing in Luanda

Ana Coimbra competed against 17 other Miss Angola Universo 2023 candidates at the Hotel de Convenções de Talatona in Luanda, Angola on July 22, 2023. She won the title.

Runner-up to Coimbra was Tatiana Manuel of Bengo. The second runner-up was Eliane Cavelho of Namibe.

Nelma Ferreira attended the coronation ceremony. On October 10, 2024, she was officially appointed Miss Universe Angola 2024.

Miss Angola Universo 2024 contestants

On November 30, 2024, Ferreira will crown her successor at Clube S in Luanda. It is 27th edition of the national beauty pageant that selects the Miss Universe candidate of Angola.

There are 19 women competing for the Miss Angola Universo 2024 crown. Here are the candidates:

1. Isabel Faria (Bengo)
2. Kendra Cordeiro (Benguela)
3. Elizandra Costa (Bie)
4. Helena Abel (Cabinda)
5. Lucidez Domingos (Cuanza Norte)
6. Francelina Sebastiao (Cuanza Sul)
7. Maria Ribeiro (Cuando Cubango)
8. Ana Feliciano (Cunene)
9. Luzineyd Cussumua (Diaspora)
10. Ana Cordeiro (Huambo)
11. Ilda Machado (Huila)
12. Maria Augusta Mendes da Cunha (Luanda)
13. Celeste Fernandes (Luanda Norte)
14. Maria de Carlis (Luanda Sul)
15. Paula Manuel (Malanje)
16. Jurelma Cabral (Moxico)
17. Angelina Tchivandja (Namibe)
18. Delfina Baptista (Uige)
19. Maria Pitar (Zaire)

Angola currently has four Miss Universe placements including the coronation of Leila Lopes. Representing the African country, Ana José Sebastião and Telma de Jesus Sonhi finished in the Top 15 in 2003 and 2004, respectively, while Micaela Reis finished in the Top 10 in 2007.

On September 12, 2011, Lopes represented Angola at Miss Universe 2011 and competed against 88 other candidates at the Credicard Hall in São Paulo, Brazil. She won the title.

Angola was represented at Miss Universe 2023 by Coimbra at the Gimnasio Nacional Jose Adolfo Pineda in San Salvador, El Salvador o November 18, 2023 and at Miss Universe 2024 by Ferreira at the Mexico City Arena in Mexico City, Mexico on November 16, 2024. They were both unplaced.