Expo 2008

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Expo 2008 is a planned international exposition to be held from 14th June to 14th September 2008 and coordinated by the Bureau of International Expositions organization which is responsible for sanctioning World's Fairs.

The 2008 expo will be held in Zaragoza, Spain, with the topic of "Water and sustainable development". The event is being placed in a meandre of the river Ebro.

The Expo 2008 mascot is Fluvi, a little female drop of water.

Zaragoza, host city for the International Exposition, is the administrative and financial capital of the Aragon region and the fifth largest Spanish city in inhabitants (660,000), behind Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia and Seville.

The exhibition’s most emblematic feature will be the Water Tower, a transparent building 60 metres high designed by Enrique de Teresa Trilla to evoke a drop of water. Aside from the countries, non-government organizations and private companies will be taking part in Expo 2008, always with the idea of water and sustainable development. The Expo 2008 host committee has estimated that this event could generate 135 million euros in receipts for admission to the exhibition centre.

[edit] Participants Pavillions

More than 70 countries, plus dozens of companies and NGOs are expected to participate in Expo 2008. So far, the confirmed list has these 49 countries, arranged by its date of confirmation:

Participants
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	France	El Salvador	Bolivia
Jordan	Ecuador	Turkey	Morocco
Nicaragua	Panama	Malaysia	Costa Rica
Honduras	Jamaica	Belize	Saint Lucia
Mauritania	Switzerland	Argelia	Grenada
Antigua and Barbuda	Germany	Barbados	Portugal
Egypt	Andorra	Belgium	Monaco
Kazakhstan	Yemen	Austria	Slovakia
China	Italy	Bahamas	Mali
Dominica	Colombia	Poland	Greece
Guatemala	Ethiopia	Uruguay	Niger
Russia	Dominican Republic	South Korea	Bulgaria
United Arab Emirates

The pavilions for official participants will be divided into 8 large buildings and into five differentiated eco-geographical areas within the Expo 2008 Exposition site, which will help to guide and separate the different participating countries. Those areas are:

Islands and Coasts
Oasis
Ice and snow
Temperate Forests
Tropical Rainforests
Mountains and High Plains
Grasslands, Steppes and Savannahs
Rivers and Flat plains

The joint pavilions corresponding to the eco-geographic areas of Grasslands, Steppes and Savannahs, Tropical Rainforests and Islands and Coasts, are being built by the organisers to house the pavilions of countries of Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), respectively. The total surface area of the participating countries pavilions is 61,667 m².