The Miss World Spain contest was held this weekend in Puerto de la Cruz and was won by 18 year old Elena Ibarbia from the Basque region of northern Spain. She will represent Spain in this year’s Miss World contest being held in Indonesia in September.

The contest was held in the Lago Martiánez pool complex in the seaside resort of Puerto de la Cruz Tenerife in the Canary Islands, on Saturday.

Miss Ibarbia is committed with social assistance and and spent several months helping elderly people ‘helping people that society sometimes forgets’.