Pictures of central american rainforests

Images of central american rainforests taken by Rhett Ayers Butler. Last updated: January 2, 2023.



Rainforests

Red cup mushrooms (Cookeina speciosa)

Aerial view of rainforest and oil palm plantations in Costa Rica [costa_rica_aerial_0113]

Giant rainforest tree [costa_rica_la_selva_0483]

Overhead view of rainforest in Costa Rica [costa_rica_aerial_0344]

Osa rainforest

Heliconia

Rainforests [costa_rica_la_selva_1758]

Epiphytes in a rainforest canopy tree [costa_rica_osa_0060]

Aerial view of rainforest and oil palm plantations

Red heliconia

Rainforest trail

Rainforests [costa_rica_osa_0155]

Rainforest hunter

Costa Rican rainforest

Aerial view of rain forest in Costa Rica

Epiphytes in a rainforest canopy tree [costa_rica_osa_0067]

Heliconia collinsiana

Jungle lining the Panama Canal near BCI

Lake Gatun and Barro Colorado Island

Rainforest creek on the Osa Peninsula

Heliconia [costa_rica_siquirres_0001]

Rainforest leaves [costa-rica_0737]

Lavendar flowers from a Jacaranda tree blanketing the floor of the rainforest

Heliconia [costa_rica_la_selva_1658]

Airplane view of rain forest in Costa Rica

Aerial view of rainforest and oil palm plantations in Costa Rica [costa_rica_aerial_0171]

Siquirres rainforest [costa_rica_siquirres_0670]

Aerial view of rainforest and oil palm plantations [costa_rica_aerial_0164]

Rainforests [costa_rica_osa_0152]

Aerial view of rainforest in Costa Rica

Osa rainforest tree

Heliconia [costa_rica_osa_0780]

Deforestation in Panama

Aerial view of tropical rainforest in Bocas del Toro

Costa Rica rainforest

Overhead view of rain forest in Costa Rica

Siquirres rainforest

Airplane view of rain forest in Costa Rica [costa_rica_aerial_0353]

Rainforest canopy tree

Red rainforest leaves

Airplane view of rainforest in Costa Rica

Buttress root of a canopy tree in the rainforest of Barro Colorado Island

Liana wrapped around a rainforest canopy tree

Rainforest tree

Heliconia [costa_rica_la_selva_1468]

Siquirres rainforest tree

Aerial view of rainforest and oil palm plantations in Costa Rica [costa_rica_aerial_0169]

Aerial view of rainforest in Costa Rica [costa_rica_aerial_0372]

Aerial view of rainforest and oil palm plantations in Costa Rica [costa_rica_aerial_0157]

Rainforest

Aerial view of rainforest and oil palm plantations in Costa Rica [costa_rica_aerial_0149]

Central American rainforest

Overhead view of rain forest in Costa Rica [costa_rica_aerial_0375]

Canopy of the Osa Peninsula rainforest

Aerial view of rain forest in Costa Rica [costa_rica_aerial_0303]

Aerial view of rain forest in Costa Rica [costa_rica_aerial_0285]

Giant ceiba ('Big Tree') in the Panamanian rainforest

Overhead view of rainforest in Costa Rica [costa_rica_aerial_0322]

River near Penalosa

Epiphytes in a rainforest canopy tree

Rainforest creek on the Osa Peninsula [costa_rica_osa_0422]

Giant rainforest tree

Oil palm plantation and rainforest in Costa Rica

Aerial view of rainforest and oil palm plantations in Costa Rica

Rainforest leaf decaying on the forest floor

Rainforest of the Darien

Overhead view of rainforest in Costa Rica

Rainforests [costa_rica_osa_0157]

Giant kapok ('Big Tree') in Panama's rainforest [panama_0209]

Heliconia [costa_rica_osa_0782]

Overhead view of rainforest in Costa Rica [costa_rica_aerial_0356]

Rainforest [costa_rica_osa_0018]

Rainforest vegetation

Giant rainforest tree [costa-rica-d_0151]

Central American rainforest [costa_rica_la_selva_1342]

Orange flower from Cucurbitaceae (cucumber family probably from a vine)

A creek in Soberania National Park

Rainforest vegetation in Costa Rica [costa_rica_la_selva_1301]

Rainforest canopy

Rainforest and coastline in Costa Rica

Airplane view of rainforest in Costa Rica [costa_rica_aerial_0312]

Palm frond [panama_0223]

Airplane view of rainforest in Costa Rica [costa_rica_aerial_0294]

Aerial view of rainforest and oil palm plantations [costa_rica_aerial_0148]

Giant ceiba

Palm oil and rainforests in Costa Rica [costa_rica_aerial_0339]

The rainforest canopy from below

Osa rainforest tree [costa_rica_osa_0073]

Heliconia [costa_rica_la_selva_1661]

Kapok tree towering over the forest [costa-rica-d_0009]

Costa Rica rainforest [costa_rica_siquirres_0664]

Airplane view of rainforest in Costa Rica [costa_rica_aerial_0370]

Aerial view of rainforest and oil palm plantations in Costa Rica [costa_rica_aerial_0131]

Palm frond

Canopy of the Osa Peninsula rainforest [costa-rica_0957]

Soberania National Park

Aerial view of rainforest in Costa Rica [costa_rica_aerial_0360]

Choco rainforest

Central American rainforest [costa_rica_la_selva_1338]

Fallen purple flower from a woody vine or liana of the Bignoniaceae - trumpet creeper family - in the Choco rainforest

Rainforest tree [costa_rica_osa_0210]

Leaf in the Costa Rican jungle

Rainforests [costa_rica_la_selva_1757]

Rainforest leaves

Heliconia [costa_rica_la_selva_1455]

Rainforest creek on the Osa Peninsula [costa_rica_osa_0787]

Aerial view of forests and islands of Golfo Dulce

Aerial view of rainforest in Costa Rica [costa_rica_aerial_0402]

Rainforest tree on the Osa Peninsula

Red heliconia [costa_rica_osa_0306]

Rainforest sunset

Rainforest in Costa Rica

Siquirres rainforest [costa_rica_siquirres_0117]

Airplane view of rain forest in Costa Rica [costa_rica_aerial_0347]

Red heliconia [costa_rica_osa_0310]

Airplane view of rain forest in Costa Rica [costa_rica_aerial_0313]

Coastal rainforest in Colombia's Darien

Aerial view of rainforest in Costa Rica [costa_rica_aerial_0266]

Tropical forest of Soberania National Park

Siquirres rainforest [costa_rica_siquirres_0587]

Giant rainforest tree [costa_rica_osa_0248]

Epiphytes in a rainforest canopy tree [costa_rica_osa_0063]

Costa Rica rainforest [costa_rica_siquirres_0674]

Costa Rican rainforest at Las Cruces

Osa rainforest tree [costa_rica_osa_0076]

Giant rainforest tree [costa_rica_osa_0245]

Cuipo; Cavanillesia platanifolia; a tree with a bulbous trunk

Philodendron leaves

Rainforests [costa_rica_osa_0151]

Aerial view of rainforest in Costa Rica [costa_rica_aerial_0320]

Rainforest [costa_rica_osa_0052]

Airplane view of rainforest in Costa Rica [costa_rica_aerial_0306]

Palm frond in the rainforest

Rainforest tree [costa_rica_la_selva_1445]

Leaves of a rainforest shrub illuminated in a ray of sunlight

Aerial view of rain forest in Costa Rica [costa_rica_aerial_0361]

Kapok tree towering over the forest

Rainforest on the Osa Peninsula

Tropical forest leaves caught in sunlight

Airplane view of rain forest in Costa Rica [costa_rica_aerial_0283]

Yellow heliconia

Heliconia [costa_rica_siquirres_0742]

Central American rainforest [costa_rica_la_selva_1345]

Rainforest creek on the Osa Peninsula [costa_rica_osa_0424]

Palm oil and rainforests in Costa Rica

Aerial view of rain forest in Costa Rica [costa_rica_aerial_0279]

Siquirres rainforest [costa_rica_siquirres_0102]

Rainforest tree [costa_rica_la_selva_0917]

Pasture regenerating forest and forest in Las Cruces

Aerial view of rainforest and oil palm plantations [costa_rica_aerial_0138]

Costa Rican rainforest [costa_rica_osa_0235]

Rainforest tree [costa_rica_la_selva_1451]

Rainforests [costa_rica_osa_0159]

Central American rainforest [costa_rica_la_selva_1343]

Costa Rican rainforest [costa_rica_osa_0231]

Heliconia [costa_rica_la_selva_1778]

Rainforest leaf

Tropical rainforest in the Osa Peninsula

Rainforest leaf decaying on the forest floor [costa_rica_osa_0868]

Siquirres rainforest [costa_rica_siquirres_0671]

rhett

Epiphytes in a rainforest canopy tree [costa_rica_osa_0058]

Rainforest [costa_rica_osa_0027]

Heliconia [costa_rica_la_selva_1464]

Rainforests [costa_rica_la_selva_1749]

River near Penalosa [colombia_1901]

Strangler fig

Heliconia [costa_rica_la_selva_1779]

Tractors clearing forest in Panama

Looking up the trunk of a giant Ceiba tree

Mongbay's Rhett Butler

Osa rainforest tree [costa_rica_osa_0082]

Siquirres rainforest [costa_rica_siquirres_0113]

Giant rainforest tree [costa-rica-d_0152]

Heliconia [costa_rica_siquirres_0160]

Overhead view of rain forest in Costa Rica [costa_rica_aerial_0299]

Dead rainforest tree

Looking up the trunk of a giant Ceiba tree

Costa Rican rainforest in the late afternoon

Strangler fig wrapped around a canopy tree

Rainforest of Soberania National Park

Rainforest canopy tree [costa_rica_osa_0221]

Overhead view of rainforest in Costa Rica [costa_rica_aerial_0280]

Rainforest [costa_rica_osa_0015]

Rainforest vegetation in Costa Rica

Siquirres rainforest [costa_rica_siquirres_0592]

Leaf in the rainforest of Costa Rica

Giant kapok ('Big Tree') in Panama's rainforest

Rainforest creeks

Rainforests [costa_rica_la_selva_1775]

Thick woody liana in the rain forest of BCI

Aerial view of rainforest in Costa Rica [costa_rica_aerial_0354]

Aerial view of rainforest in Costa Rica [costa-rica-d_0651]

Aerial view of rainforest and oil palm plantations in Costa Rica [costa_rica_aerial_0111]

Aerial view of rainforest and oil palm plantations [costa_rica_aerial_0154]

Tropical rainforest in the Osa Peninsula [costa-rica_1358]

Cauliflorous flowers emerging from the trunk of a rainforest tree

Rainforest leaves [costa-rica_0962]

Tropical rainforest in the Osa Peninsula [costa-rica_1356]

Canopy of the Osa Peninsula rainforest [costa-rica_0953]

Sunlit rainforest vegetation

Yellow heliconia [costa_rica_la_selva_1473]

Airplane view of rain forest in Costa Rica [costa_rica_aerial_0122]

Kapok tree towering over the forest [costa-rica-d_0007]

Red wax palm

Lake Gatun and Barro Colorado Island [panama_0287]

Aerial view of rainforest and oil palm plantations [costa_rica_aerial_0172]

Costa Rican rainforest in the late afternoon [costa_rica_4641]

Thorns growing out of the trunk of a rainforest tree

Aerial view of rainforest and oil palm plantations in Costa Rica [costa_rica_aerial_0109]

Lake Gatun; Panama

Kapok or Ceiba tree buttress roots

Pasture regenerating forest and forest in Las Cruces [cr_3801]

Tropical forest leaves caught in sunlight [costa-rica_0983]

Pacific coast rainforest of Costa Rica [costa_rica_5431]

Rainforest tree [costa_rica_la_selva_1454]

View of La Selva rainforest and Central mountain range of Costa Rica

Overhead view of rainforest in Costa Rica [costa_rica_aerial_0316]

Tropical forest of BCI; note the bulbous Cuipo tree in the center

Soberania National Park [pan01-0674]

Palm grove in the Panamanian rainforest

 

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