The Expo will be run from 8 in the morning until 8 in the evening at Spanish Lookout. It will feature crop, animal, feed and agricultural machinery exhibits as well as traditional Belize Mennonite handicraft such as quilts and blankets.Special prices will be offered by companies taking part in the fair throughout the day.
Spanish Lookout is located in the Cayo District near Belmopan Belize, Central America. The approximate population is 3,000 inhabitants. Spanish Lookout is a community of Mennonites in Belize. It has several surrounding communities, namely Duck Run 1, 2 and 3 and San Marcos which are settled by Latino Belizeans who provide some labour to the the Central Spanish Lookout community in the areas of chicken, egg and dairy production.
The citizens Spanish Lookout speak Plautdietsch; most also speak English and Spanish. Since the paving of the main access road it has evolved into a rapidly expanding commercial and agricultural community with some light and heavy industry, oil production (currently 5,000 barrels a day, furniture making, prefabricated wood houses, tin smith, home and industrial roofing, aggregates and hardware distribution. It features the largest supermarket in the area and is frequented as a shopping center by Belizeans from most of the Cayo District.
