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Pictures of the Colombian Amazon

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These " Pictures of the Colombian Amazon " were taken during a 2007 trip to Colombia.

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Green macaw


Leaf toad in the Amazon


Red, black, yellow, and white caterpillar


Orange and yellow beetle with black spots


Green and brown grasshopper with yellow markings and a black head


Thin spider in the Amazon


Green grasshopper


Red insect


Brown spider


Woolly monkey


Red howler monkey


Rasberry dragonfly


Anaconda with tongue extended


False coral snake


Boa constrictor in defensive mode


Blue and yellow macaw (Ara ararauna)


Red Bill Toucan (Ramphastos tucanus)


Squirrel Monkeys (Saimiri sciureus)




Common green iguana (Iguana iguana) on a tree trunk in the Amazon rainforest


Butterfly in the Amazon rainforest canopy


Emergent tree rising above the Amazon rainforest canopy


Platform in the flooded swamp forest


Canopy access platform in the flooded swamp forest of the Colombian Amazon


Red howler monkey howling


Grassy riverbank of an Amazon tributary


Amazon River in flood


Giant black and red jungle tarantula


Poisonous caterpillar displaying its neon green but venemous spines


Leaf in the rainforest understory


Pair of "rainbow" grasshoppers


Oropendula nests silhouetted by sundown over the Amacayacu


Camping in the Amazon rainforest


Borugo (Agouti taczanowskii)


Black Caiman (Melanosucus niger) among water hyacinth


Harpy Eagle, Harpia harpyja, in Colombia


Jaguar (Panthera onca)


Headshot of a tapir (Tapirus terrestris)


Amazon water lilies in Colombia


Oxbow lake filled with Amazon water lilies in Colombia


New Victoria amazonica leaf


Black, orange, and light blue butterfly on a Heliconia leaf


White Victoria amazonica flower


Juvenile caiman


Orange, green, black, yellow, and turquoise grasshopper


Brown tree frog near Puerto Nari�o


Ocelot










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