The contest gathers participants from all over the nation, including Peruvian women representing their community overseas.

The current Miss Peru is Tatiana Calmell, who represented the town/province of Talara in the department of Piura, and won the title in the constitutional province of Callao on June 9th, 2024.

Bueno traveled to Long Beach, California to represent her country, but failed to enter the group of semifinalists.

Peru participated in the Miss World pageant for the first time in 1959, represented by María Elena Rossel Zapata, who was ranked as the 1st runner-up.

In 1973, Peru did not send its representative, Mary Núñez Bartra, to the Miss Universe Pageant, because she was prevented from participating by the president of the republic, Juan Velasco Alvarado.

The winner was the 18 year old Karen Baldwin from Canada, who became the first representative of her country to win the Miss Universe title.

A group of twelve semifinalists were chosen from a total of 77 candidates, representatives from the many countries and territories that competed in this version of the contest.

Liesel Holler failed to reach the semifinals in 2004, but like her predecessor also joined the group of semifinalists in the Miss Earth 2004 pageant.

In 2004, Peru returned to international glory in the field of beauty pageants in December 2004, when María Julia Mantilla won the Miss World title[2] thanks to a worldwide vote through text messages and phone calls, which occurred for the first time in the history of the event.

The country returned to the placement circle of Miss World after a 13-year drought when Pamela Sanchez made the Top 40 on the final night.

Jessica Newton, Miss Peru 1987, after the international contest went to Los Angeles, California where she studied and also worked with Paramount Pictures.

Since 2007 she has been the representative of Condé Nast, which publishes magazines Vogue, Glamour, GQ and Vanity Fair for Latin America and Mexico.

Like Gladys Zender and Madeline Hartog-Bel, María Julia Mantilla also became a well-known and popular figure in her country.

Claudia Hernández eventually worked as the morning news reporter at Buenos Días, Perù on Panamericana Televisión.

Karen Schwarz, Miss Peru 2009, hosted some TV shows in Frecuencia Latina up until the end of 2016 due to expecting her first child.

Vertiz currently works as part of the "Espectáculos" section reporter in América Television's news networks.