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With its rain forest, wildlife. and beaches, Costa Rica is one of the world's leading ecotourism destinations. Today the Central American country draws more than 1 million foreign tourists per year who spend an estimated $1.3 billion. This makes tourism one of Costa Rica's most important industries.

Costa Rica's rainforests: a status report written in the late 1990s
Travel guides on Costa Rica
2008 trip | 2009 trip

Sections Amphibians, Animals, Arachnids, Arenal, Arthropods, Beaches, Birds, Butterflies and moths, Crocodiles, Flora, Flowers, Frogs and toads, Hacienda Baru, Herps, Insects, Invertebrates, Las Cruces, Lizards, Mammals, Manuel Antonio, Monkeys, Osa Peninsula, Rainforest, Rainforests, Reptiles, Scenery, Sea turtles, Wildlife, and More topics.
Highlights
Lizard seen from the underside of a leaf Green insect with polka dots Moth on the underside of a leaf caught by the sun Banana flowers and red banana fruit Red frog Mottled forest frog The Green Basilisk (Basiliscus plumifrons) is found on the Atlantic slope of Costa Rica Red ginger Lily Yellow and black swallowtail butterfly Baby caiman Orange and yellow heliconia Pale-throated Three-toed Sloth (Bradypus tridactylus) Green Poison Arrow Frog (Dendrobates auratus) with a tadpole on its back Blue morpho with its wings closed Isabella's Heliconian (Eueides isabella) Isabella's Tiger (Eueides isabella) in the Costa Rican forest Frog Baby kinkajou Giant brown beetle with off-white markings Common chunk headed snake - Imantodes cenchoa Baby sea turtle on a Costa Rican beach Red-Eyed Tree Frog American Crocodile (Crocodylus acutus) with its mouth open Sunset in Dominical Bee approaching a bird-of-paradise flower Red-tailed squirrel (Sciurus granatensis) feeding on a flower in Costa Rica Ginger plant Group of White-nosed Coati Red passion vine flower Rainforest leaves Glass Frog, Costa Rica Male Anole, Costa Rica	Scale-crested Pygmy-tyrant (Lophotriccus pileatus) Tiger Longwing (Heliconius hecale) Short-tailed Nighthawk (Lurocalis semitorquatus) Transparent moth White-faced capuchin Lizard, Costa Rica Fiery Billed Aracari, Costa Rica Male Iguana, Costa Rica Squirrel Monkey, Costa Rica Green insect with polka dots Leaf in the rainforest of Costa Rica Strangler fig Costa Rican rainforest in the late afternoon Black honeybee Sunset in the Costa Rican rainforest of the Osa Peninsula Long-legged spider Red orange flowers Green Honeycreeper Chlorophanes spiza, being assessed by researchers Red and yellow heliconia Salmon-bellied Snake (Mastigodryas melanolomus) Bat Orange, yellow, and white flower White-faced Capuchin (Cebus capucinus) White-faced Capuchin Red and green arrow poison frog (Dendrobates granuliferus) Leaf-cutter ants Pair of Rufous Motmot (Baryphthengus martii) following a column of army ants Red hibiscus Sunset over the Pacific as seen through the Osa peninsula rainforest Black-headed trogon (Trogon melanocephalus) Stick insect Gecko Skipper Butterfly of the Astraptes fulgerator complex in Costa Rica Green Poison Dart Frog, Costa Rica	Gladiator tree frog (Hyla rosenbergi) Brown katydid Sleeping blue morpho butterfly Hatchling Olive ridley sea turtle headed out to sea Corteza Amarilla (Tabebuia ochracea) Giant bamboo Magenta ginger flowers Hanging birdges canopy walkway Hatchling Olive ridley sea turtle headed out to sea Red-Eyed Tree Frog Multicolored leafhopper insect Spiny black, white, and orange caterpillar Manuel Antonio National Park Osa peninsula forest Blue, yellow, and orange insect Croaking frog Alien insects next to their red eggs Strange insect with red and yellow wings Colorful grasshopper Agouti (Dasyprocta punctata) Anole on a red plant stem Brown Pelicans (Pelecanus occidentalis) in flight over crashing surf Bromeliad Ochre-headed Flycatcher, Myiagra cervinicauda Little Hermit (Phaethornis longuemareus) Black wing-tipped dragonfly Postman Butterfly, Heliconius erato Praying mantis Spiny caterpillar Looking up the trunk of a giant Ceiba tree Sea turtle hatchlings Sea turtle hatchlings Beach at Manuel Antonio National Park

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