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{{Infobox beauty pageant
| winner = Diana Lucia Mantilla
| photo = 
| represented = '''{{flag|Santander Department|name = Santander}}'''
| date = November 12, 2002
| presenters =<br>Jorge Alfredo Vargas<br>[[Paola Turbay]]<br>Claudia Elena Vásquez<br>Andrea Serna
| venue = Centro de Convenciones Julio Cesar Turbay, [[Cartagena de Indias]], [[Colombia]]
| broadcaster = [[RCN TV]]
| entrants = 25
| placements = 10
| congeniality = Juliana Tous<br>{{flag|Córdoba, Colombia|name = Córdoba}}
| photogenic = Gina Paola Arango<br>{{flag|Valle del Cauca|name = Valle}}
| best national costume = Jessica Pereira Hooker<br>{{flag|Archipelago of San Andrés, Providencia and Santa Catalina|name = San Andrés}}
| before = [[Miss Colombia 2001|2001]]
| next = [[Miss Colombia 2003|2003]]
}}

'''Miss Colombia 2002''', the 68th [[Miss Colombia]] [[Beauty contest|pageant]], was held in [[Cartagena de Indias]], [[Colombia]], on November 12, 2002, after three weeks of events.  The winner of the pageant was Diana Lucia Mantilla, Miss [[Santander Department|Santander]].

The pageant was broadcast live on [[RCN TV]] from the Centro de Convenciones Julio Cesar Turbay in [[Cartagena de Indias]], [[Colombia]]. At the conclusion of the final night of competition, outgoing titleholder [[Vanessa Mendoza]] crowned Diana Lucia Mantilla of [[Santander Department|Santander]] as the new [[Miss Colombia]].<ref>{{cite web|publisher=Colombia.com|title=¿Quién es la nueva Señorita Colombia 2003?|url=http://www.colombia.com/entretenimiento/noticias/DetalleNoticia2217.asp}}</ref>

==Results==

===Placements===
{| class="wikitable " style="font-size: 95%;"
|-
! Placement 
!Contestant
|-
| '''Miss Colombia 2002'''
|
* '''{{flag|Santander Department|name=Santander}} – Diana Lucia Mantilla'''
|-
| 1st Runner-Up
|
* {{flag|Cartagena}} – Isabel Sofía Cabrales
|-
| 2nd Runner-Up
|
* {{Flagicon image|Flag_of_Santa Marta.svg}} [[Santa Marta]] – Clara Inés Martínez
|-
| 3rd Runner-Up
|
* {{flag|Caldas}} – Karla Zuluaga Suarez
|-
| 4th Runner-Up
|
* {{flag|Valle del Cauca|name=Valle}} – Gina Paola Arango
|-
| Top 10
|
* {{flag|Atlántico}} – Diana Moreno Hernández
* {{flagcountry|Bolívar, Colombia}} – Brenda María Juan Guardela
* {{flag|La Guajira|name=Guajira}} – Sara Elisa Parodi
* {{flag|Nariño}} – Luz Zulema Casanova 
* {{flag|Archipelago of San Andrés, Providencia and Santa Catalina|name=San Andrés}} – Jessica Pereira Hooker
|}

<!-- ===Special awards===
* Miss Photogenic (voted by press reporters) -   ([[ Department| ]])
* Best Body Figura Bodytech -  ([[ Department| ]])
* Miss Congeniality -    ([[ Department| ]])
* Best Costume -    ([[ Department|Valle]])
* Reina de la Policia -      ([[ Department|  ]])
* Señorita Puntualidad -    ([[  Department| ]])
* Miss Elegance -   ([[ Department| ]]) -->

==Delegates <!--<ref>[http://.htm Candidatas a Señorita Colombia 2005]</ref> -->==
The Miss Colombia 2002 delegates are:
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*'''[[File:Flag_of_Antioquia_Department.svg|border|23x23px]] [[Antioquia Department|Antioquia]]''' -  Carolina Giraldo García
*'''[[File:Flag_of_Atlántico.svg|border|23x23px]] [[Atlántico Department|Atlántico]]''' -  Diana María Moreno Hernández
*'''[[File:Flag_of_Barranquilla.svg|border|23x23px]] [[Barranquilla]]''' -  Liliana de Cambil Ávila
*'''[[File:Flag_of_Bogotá.svg|border|23x23px]] [[Bogotá|Bogotá D.C.]]''' - María Molina Salazar 
*'''[[File:Flag_of_Bolívar_Department.svg|border|23x23px]] [[Bolívar Department|Bolívar]]''' -  Brenda María Juan Guardela
*'''[[File:Flag_of_Caldas.svg|border|23x23px]] [[Caldas Department|Caldas]]''' - Karla Zuluaga Suárez
*'''[[File:Flag_of_Cartagena.svg|border|23x23px]] [[Cartagena de Indias|Cartagena DT y C]]''' - Isabel Sofia Cabrales Baquero
*'''[[File:Flag_of_Cauca.svg|border|23x23px]] [[Cauca Department|Cauca]]''' - Liliana María Simmonds Villada
*'''[[File:Flag_of_Cesar.svg|border|23x23px]] [[Cesar Department|Cesar]]''' - Berta de los Ángeles Velásquez B.
*'''[[File:Flag_of_Chocó.svg|border|23x23px]] [[Chocó Department|Chocó]]''' - Carolina Quintero Schuller
*'''[[File:Flag_of_Córdoba_Department.svg|border|23x23px]] [[Córdoba Department|Córdoba]]''' - Sandra Juliana Tous de la Ossa
*'''[[File:Flag_of_Cundinamarca.svg|border|23x23px]] [[Cundinamarca Department|Cundinamarca]]''' - Liliana Isabel Jiménez Moreno
*'''[[File:Flag_of_La_Guajira.svg|border|24x24px]] [[Guajira Department|Guajira]]''' - Sara Elisa Parodi Brito
*'''[[File:Flag_of_Magdalena.svg|border|23x23px]] [[Magdalena Department|Magdalena]]''' - Esther María Bornacelli García
*'''[[File:Flag_of_Meta.svg|border|23x23px]] [[Meta Department|Meta]]''' - Andrea Viviana Svenson Gonfrier
*'''[[File:Flag_of_Nariño.svg|border|23x23px]] [[Nariño Department|Nariño]]''' - Lina Zulema Casanova Del Castillo 
*'''[[File:Flag_of_Norte_de_Santander.svg|border|23x23px]] [[Norte de Santander Department|Norte de Santander]]''' - Naidu Patricia Illera Arango
*'''[[File:Flag_of_Quindío.svg|border|23x23px]] [[Quindío Department|Quindío]]''' - Lina María Maya Giraldo
*'''[[File:Flag_of_Risaralda.svg|border|23x23px]] [[Risaralda Department|Risaralda]]''' - Marcela Delgado Rincón 
*'''[[File:Flag_of_San_Andrés_y_Providencia.svg|border|23x23px]] [[San Andrés and Providencia Department|San Andrés and Providencia]]''' -  Jessica Samantha Pereira Hooker
*'''[[File:Flag_of_Santa Marta.svg|border|23x23px]] [[Santa Marta]]''' -  Clara Inés Martínez Aarón
*'''[[File:Flag_of_Santander_(Colombia).svg|border|23x23px]] [[Santander Department|Santander]]''' - Diana Lucia Mantilla Prada
*'''[[File:Flag_of_Sucre_(Colombia).svg|border|23x23px]] [[Sucre Department|Sucre]]''' - Liliana Patricia Romero Iriarte 
*'''[[File:Flag_of_Tolima.svg|border|23x23px]] [[Tolima Department|Tolima]]''' - Adriana Katherine Coca Gaitán
*'''[[File:Flag_of_Valle_del_Cauca.svg|23x23px]] [[Valle del Cauca Department|Valle]]''' - Gina Paola Arango Lemos
{{div col end}}

==References and footnotes==
{{Reflist}} 

==External links==
*[http://www.srtacolombia.org/ Official site]

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