San Rafael Falls
San Rafael Falls on the Rio Coca on the eastern side of the Andes Mountains dropped 475ft - 175m which made it the tallest waterfall in Ecuador as seen here in Jan 2000, but in Feb of 2020 the river undercut the falls and changed it by destroying the river bed and the falls
San Rafael Falls on the Rio Quijos on the eastern side of the Andes Mountains drops 475ft - 175m which made it the tallest waterfall in Ecuador until just recently. It no longer exists due to a catastrophic erosional event.
Rio Quijos
A small group of kayakers floating down the Rio Quijos in eastern Ecuador
Amazon Parrot
Amazon Parrot (Amazona amazonica) in the lowland forest near Tena, Ecuador
Waterfalls
A two-tiered waterfall decorates a steep mountainside in a cloud forest in the eastern Andes of Ecuador
Cloud forest
A beam of sunlight creates a curtain of mist in a cloud forest in the eastern Andes of Ecuador
Sunshine lights up a small area of cloud forest during a rainfall
Palm leaf
Sunlight glows through a palm leaf in Ecuador
A gentle rain creates a cloud of mist as it moves across the cloud forest of the Rio Quijos valley in the Andes mountains of Ecuador
El Chaco Canyon
A lone kayaker enters the narrow, black, basaltic canyon walls of El Chaco Canyon on the Rio Quijos in Ecuador
Waterfall
An unnamed waterfall, in the Rio Quijos valley, whose flow at the top creates a shape similar to a Cala Lily
Bananas
Bananas growing wild in the cloud forest of Ecuador
Mimosa bloom
Mimosa albida near Tena, Ecuador
Capybara
Capybara (Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris)
Wandering Jew plant
Wandering Jew (Tradescantia zebrina) in BioParque A. La Isla, an ecological preserve in Tena, Ecuador
Jungle Geranium
Jungle Geranium (Ixora coccinea) in the jungles of Tena, Ecuador
Gigantic Philodendron plant
Large leaves of a Philodendron plant (Philodendron sp.) near Tena, Ecuador
Abutilon bloom
(Abutilon pictum) hanging above a palm leaf along the Rio Quijos in the eastern Andes of Ecuador
Stranded vase
A vase lies in the crook of a tree in the cloud forests of Ecuador
Wooly Monkey (Lagothrix lagotricha) hanging on a tree in a rainforest near Tena, Ecuador
Lowland Woolly Monkey (Lagothrix lagotricha poeppigii) hanging from vine in the Amazon area near Tena, Ecuador
