A rare megamouth shark species was found on shore and the island is the only habitat for the threatened toad, Bufo valhallae (genus Bufo ).

Chinese vessel Cosco Shipping Panama was the first ship that sailed through the newly extended Panama Canal, thus opening traffic into the new locks at Agua Clara at the Atlantic watershed.

World Summit on Sustainable Development (August 26 Sept. 4, Johannesburg, South Africa attended by four representatives Participation Ms. Simonsson presented her film El Canto del Agua on water economy in the south of Spain.

The U.S. branch office was boosted by a letter written by a Spanish student in the University of Iowa, who lamented the impossibility of buying Agua Lavanda Puig in the United States, as it was confirmed years later by company sources.