Costa Rica Travel Pictures

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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.

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Sections Amphibians, Animals, Arachnids, 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 Banana flowers and red banana fruit Red frog Mottled forest frog Green grasshopper with an orange abdomen Red heliconia Lily Yellow and black swallowtail butterfly Orange and yellow heliconia Blue morpho with its wings closed Orange, black, and yellow butterfly Orange, black, and yellow butterfly Green-and-black poison dart frog (Dendrobates auratus) Brown leaf litter snake Frog Giant brown beetle with off-white markings Brown snake with dark brown markings Red orb spider feeding Baby sea turtle on a Costa Rican beach Red-Eyed Tree Frog American Crocodile (Crocodylus acutus) with its mouth open Sunset in Dominical Transparent moth Bee approaching a bird-of-paradise flower Red-tailed squirrel (Sciurus granatensis) feeding on a flower in Costa Rica Scale-crested Pygmy-tyrant (Lophotriccus pileatus) Orange, yellow, and black butterfly Short-tailed Nighthawk (Lurocalis semitorquatus) White-faced capuchin Lizard, Costa Rica Fiery Billed Aracari, Costa Rica Male Iguana, Costa Rica Scarlet Macaws, Costa Rica Squirrel Monkey, Costa Rica Green insect with polka dots Leaf in the rainforest of Costa Rica Strangler fig Black butterfly with a white fringe, an orange patch, and turquoise spots Costa Rican rainforest in the late afternoon Flowering bromeliad Black honeybee Red orange flowers Yellow heliconia Green Honeycreeper Chlorophanes spiza, being assessed by researchers Red and yellow heliconia Orange, yellow, and white flower White-faced Capuchin (Cebus capucinus) White-faced Capuchin Yellow, black, and white butterfly Red and green arrow poison frog (Dendrobates granuliferus) Walking stick insect Brown katydid Sleeping blue morpho butterfly Hatchling Olive ridley sea turtle headed out to sea Hatchling Olive ridley sea turtle headed out to sea Red-Eyed Tree Frog Spiny black, white, and orange caterpillar Manuel Antonio National Park Colorful grasshopper Agouti (Dasyprocta punctata) Anole on a red plant stem Pasture, regenerating forest, and forest in Las Cruces Bromeliad Ochre-headed Flycatcher, Myiagra cervinicauda Little Hermit (Phaethornis longuemareus) Black wing-tipped dragonfly Black, red, and yellow butterfly 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 Blue Morpho Butterfly in Costa Rica Green Poison Dart Frog, Costa Rica Glass Frog, Costa Rica Male Anole, Costa Rica

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