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Jennifer Colón

Puerto Rican model and beauty queen

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 5, 2026
Entity authorityQ6178221
Source-derived summary

Jennifer Colón is a Puerto Rican beauty pageant titleholder who won Miss Universe Puerto Rico 2024. Colón represented Puerto Rico at Miss Universe 2024, and finished in the top 12.

Colón won Miss World Puerto Rico 2009 and represented Puerto Rico at Miss World 2009.

Early life

Colón was born in Connecticut, United States to Puerto Rican parents. Within months of her birth, her family moved back to their hometown, Orocovis, Puerto Rico.

In 2005, Colón graduated with honors from high school Colegio Bautista in Levittown, Puerto Rico and studied chemistry for three years (2005–2008) at Universidad Interamericana de Puerto Rico in Cupey.

As of 2024, Colón has her own practice as a medical esthetician and iridologist.

Pageantry

Miss Puerto Rico Universe 2009

On 22 October 2008, Colón competed in the Miss Puerto Rico Universe 2009 competition representing San Juan municipality, and was first runner-up to Mayra Matos of Cabo Rojo. She also won the award for "Most Beautiful Hair".

Miss World Puerto Rico 2009

In early 2009, Colón represented her hometown of Bayamón and won Miss World Puerto Rico 2009, on 23 July 2009 in Puerto Rico.

Editorial summary

“Jennifer Colón” enters the record as puerto Rican model and beauty queen. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Jennifer, Colón and Puerto can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2024, 2009, 2005, 2008—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1987-12-21. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Jennifer, Colón and Puerto.
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“Jennifer Colón” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Jennifer, Colón and Puerto provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 5, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6178221. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2024, 2009, 2005 and 2008.

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This entry incorporates text from Jennifer Colón” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.