The Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve is a Costa Rican reserve located along the Cordillera de Tilarán within the Puntarenas and Alajuela provinces. Named after the nearby town of Monteverde and founded
Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve
A green-crowned brilliant in the Monteverde Cloud Forest
Monteverde's extinct golden toad.
Suspension bridge in the reserve.
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A cloud forest, also called a water forest, primas forest, or tropical montane cloud forest, is a generally tropical or subtropical, evergreen, montane, moist forest characterized by a persistent, fre
Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve
…and Alajuela provinces. Named after the nearby town of Monteverde and founded in 1972, the Reserve consists of over 10,500 hectares (26,000 acres) of cloud forest. It draws roughly 70,000 visitors a year. The reserve consists of six life zones, 90% of which are virgin forest. A high biodiversity area, consisting…
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Stratus silvagenitus clouds in Uva Province, Sri Lanka
One of the hanging bridges of the Sky walk at the Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve in Monteverde, Costa Rica disappearing into the clouds
Bryophyte-covered mossy forest at Mount Dulang-dulang, Philippines