The cloud forest-capped mountain straddles the Equator six miles (ten kilometers) from the Pacific Ocean.
Over centuries, they survived the wars waged on them by retreating further into the mountains, through dense rainforest and cloud forest dubbed "El Infierno" by settlers.
Perched on a high-elevation cloud forest leaf the arboreal Hispaniolan crowned frog had not been seen since 1991 until this picture was taken in October 2010.
These wasps live in a cloud forest in Costa Rica.
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Here, a female floats through a cloud forest in Costa Rica.
In the high Andes of Ecuador the intense power of the equatorial sun beats down through thin air onto a grassland world fringed by glaciers and cloud forest.
He owns a cacao plantation in this swath of untamed cloud forest in northern Venezuela, where ocelots dart under towering saman trees and howler monkeys shriek at visitors.
