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Pictures of Rainforest in Colombia

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These " Pictures of Rainforest in Colombia " were taken during a 2007 trip to Colombia.

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Canopy walkway in Parque Amacayacu (Colombia)


Rainforest canopy


Rainforest canopy


Overhead view of slash-and-burn agriculture in the Amazon rainforest


Umbrella leaf in Santuario Ot�n Quimbaya


Vine growing up trunk of canopy tree in Parque Tayrona


Rainforest vegetation


Bromeliad in the Andean montane forest of Colombia


Aerial view of the Amazon river as it forms the border between Colombia and Peru


Aerial view of the Amazon river


Aerial view of the Amazon river


Aerial view of the Amazon river


Aerial view of the Amazon river


Aerial view of an Oxbow lake off the Amazon river




Ladder into the rain forest canopy


Amazon forest canopy as seen at eye level


Amazon rainforest canopy as seen at eye level


Bromeliad atop a rainforest canopy tree


Rainforest canopy tree


Canopy platform in the Amazon rainforest


Slogging through a swamp in the Amazon rainforest


Buttress roots in the Amazon swamp forest


Buttress roots of a canopy tree in the Amazon swamp forest


Emergent canopy tree near a cattle pasture in the Amazon


Oropendula nests along the Amacayacu, a tributary of the Amazon river


Walking palm


Banyon tree in the Amazon


Buttress roots provide support for an Amazon rainforest tree


Shallow-rooted rainforest canopy trees often have buttress roots for support


Giant Ceiba tree in the Colombian Amazon


Sundown in the Amazon rainforest


Airplane view of slash-and-burn forest clearing in the Amazon rainforest of Colombia


Aerial view of forest and small scale agricultural clearing in the Colombian Amazon


View from an airplane of Colombia's Amazon rainforest


Aerial view of likely indigenous forest clearing in the Amazon rainforest of Colombia


Aerial view of a meandering stream in the Colombian Amazon










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