title: Natalia Carvajal
text: # Natalia Carvajal
  
  Natalia Carvajal Sánchez (born September 14, 1990) is a Costa Rican model and beauty pageant titleholder who won the Miss Universe Costa Rica 2018 on April 27, 2018 in Costa Rica.
  
  ## Personal life
  
  Carvajal is a TV host, a publicist, a literature student and ex contestant of the Costa Rican version of Dancing with the Stars.
  
  ## Pageantry
  
  ### Miss Eco International 2016
  
  Carvajal was crowned as Miss Eco International 2016.
  
  ### Miss Costa Rica 2018
  
  Carvajal was crowned as Miss Costa Rica 2018 and she succeeded outgoing Miss Costa Rica 2017 Elena Correa.
  
  ### Miss Universe 2018
  
  Carvajal represented Costa Rica at Miss Universe 2018 pageant in Bangkok, Thailand. She placed in Top 10.
  
  