Miss world 2004,María Julia “Maju” Mantilla García (born July 10, 1984) is a Peruvian beauty quen who became the second woman from Peru to be crowned Miss World.
Born in Trujillo,
Mantilla is the younger of two daughters. She was studying to become a high
school teacher and planned to start a second degree in Tourism. One of her
dreams was to own an online tourism company to promote her native town and country
all over the world. Her city, Trujillo,
is a mixture of colonial and pre-Columbian architecture.
She won the right to represent Peru in the Miss World contest as
runner-up to Liesel Holler (Miss Peru Universe 2004) and was one of the major
favorites in the run-up to the pageant, which was decided by a global
television/telephone/online vote. Popularly known in her country as
"Maju" Mantilla, her aunt María Julia Mantilla Mayer was Miss Peru 1969.
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