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photos: leticia in Colombia


Below you will find a collection of photos from Colombia. Pictures were taken by Rhett A. Butler in 2006, 2007, 2010, and 2011. While these images are the property of mongabay.com, it may be permissible to use them for non-commercial purposes (like powerpoint presentations and school projects), provided that the images are not altered in any form. Please read this for more details. If you are interested in using an image in a publication please contact me.


Environmental news for Colombia



Disperse roots provide support for a Banyon tree in the Amazon



Amazon Maloca



Green anaconda in Colombia



Bufo cf. margaritifer. Identification by Alexander Gostner.



Black Caiman (Melanosucus niger)



Striated seed on the rainforest floor



Bromeliads in the canopy of the Amazon rainforest



Aratinga pertinax



Boa constrictor in defensive mode



Grasshopper with a black body, yellow stripes, and green legs



Flotsam in the flooded Amazon river



Yellow-headed caracara



Rain forest canopy walkway



Amazon ants devouring a leaf



Ascending to the canopy



Jaguar yawn



Ocelot (Leopardus pardalis)



Dark green centipede with yellow legs and dark red antenna - Parotostigmus rex (Peruvian yellow leg centipede)



Setting up an Amazon rainforest camp site



Cattle pasture in the Colombian Amazon



Tree frog



Bromeliads (Neoregelia carolinae) in the Amazon rain forest canopy



Statue of Indian using bow and arrow in Leticia



Common woolly monkey (Lagothrix lagothricha)



Yellow flowering tree behind an Amazon settlement



Preparing to milk a fer-de-lance for its venom



Bromeliads in the Amazon rain forest canopy



Green-spot Grasshopper



Girls paddling a dugout canoe in the Amazon



Flowering bromeliads high in the rain forest canopy of the Colombian Amazon



Butterfly with transparent wings and false eye-spots (likely Haetera macleannania)



Santader statue in Leticia



Meandering river in the Colombian Amazon



Hiking in the flooded Amazon swamp forest



Raised houses in Leticia



Statue of Indian holding an Anaconda in Leticia



Cattle grazing along the Amazon



Two boys sitting in a dugout on the Amazon river



Closeup on the face of a harpy eagle



Light green praying mantis



Tapir standing at the edge of a grassy meadow



Floating homes along the Amazon near Leticia



Statue of Indian wrestling an Anaconda in Leticia



Floodplain (varzea) forest along the Amazon river



Carved post in Leticia



Red fruit



Heart formation in an Amazon river



Colombian Jaguar (Panthera onca)



Red howler monkey at a rehabilitation center



Raised walkway in Leticia



Two young male woolly monkeys



Orange and yellow Leaf Beetle, family Chrysomelidae, ON A LEAF IN THE COLOMBIAN AMAZON



Woolly monkey hanging out



Tapir walking



Large black caiman near an Amazon water lily



Light green katydid on a leaf



Orange and red Pleasing Fungus Beetle, family Erotylidae



Emergent canopy tree at sunset



Green grasshopper with black and bright yellow stripes



Tree frog




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