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Costa Rica Travel Pictures
All images are the property of Rhett Butler, copyright 1996-2001.
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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
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Hacienda Baru,
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Monkeys,
Osa Peninsula,
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Scenery,
Sea turtles,
Wildlife, and More topics.
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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
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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
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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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