Birmania Ríos (born in New York City, United States), is a Dominican American television news journalist.
Birmania (her name is the Spanish name used for the country of Burma, which is now called Myanmar) resided in New York until the age of four, when her family decided to relocate to Puerto Rico.
[1] She spent her adolescence and early adulthood on the island and upon finishing her studies and obtaining a degree in communications from Universidad del Sagrado Corazón in San Juan, she left Puerto Rico and relocated back to New York.
From this experience, Birmania gained local recognition in New York City's Latino community, and soon afterwards she became a familiar face on local Univision station WXTV, where she became a weather anchor, then she became a general assignment reporter and for two years she was the hostess of an entertainment show called Sabado al Mediodia.
She stayed with the station until 2005, when she decided to join Univision's nationally televised morning show, Despierta America.