Guayacán Rainforest Reserve

Guayacán Rainforest Reserve The Guayacan Rainforest Reserve is a small family owned and operated ecolodge and private nature preserve.

The Guayacan Rainforest Reserve is one of the best places in Costa Rica to comfortably experience an amazing tropical rainforest's biodiversity. The Guayacán Rainforest Reserve is a privately owned and operated nature preserve that is nestled in the Caribbean foothills of northern Talamanca, near the small town of Guayacán de Siquirres. The Guayacán Rainforest Reserve is one of the most exclusive

and biologically diverse private nature preserves in Costa Rica. The reserve is located in a large section of contiguous and protected rainforest in the upper catchment basin of the Siquirres River valley. The reserve has a total area of 49 hectares (121 acres), and an altitudinal range between 440–610 meters above sea level. The Guayacán Rainforest Reserve is well-known internationally for its astonishing diversity of amphibians, with 56 species having been recorded within its boundaries, but it is equally impressive for its diversity of many other groups of flora and fauna such as birds, reptiles, insects and other invertebrates, orchids, aroids, bromeliads, and palms. The Guayacán Rainforest Reserve has more than 3 kilometers of well-maintained trails that our guests can either explore on their own, or during one of the personalized private tours that we offer. For more information about visiting the Guayacán Rainforest Reserve please contact us through our website www.cramphibian.com

25/03/2026

A short video of one of our favorite and most special frog species that inhabit the Guayacan Rainforest Reserve, none other than the absolutely beautiful Isthmohyla lancasteri!!!

23/03/2026

The ever impressive Giant Katydid (Steirodon aff. careovirgulatum) showed up one night this week, attracted to some outside lights on our house here at the Guayacan Rainforest Reserve. The diversity of invertebrates that can be abundantly seen here within the reserve keeps on amazing me, even after 28 years of living here in Costa Rica...

21/03/2026

This video shows one of several tiny Red-eyed Stream Frog (Duellmanohyla rufioculis) metamorphs that were observed this week within the Guayacan Rainforest Reserve. Duellmanohyla rufioculis is currently know to be endemic to Costa Rica, but populations likely exists in western Panama as well. This species is known to inhabitat small forested mountain streams between roughly 450 to 1600 meters above sea level. The indivdual in this video was found on the low-lying vegetation growing along the bank of a small stream that starts within the reserve. Duellmanohyla rufioculis is definitely one of our favorite amphibian species found in Costa Rica.

The Guayacan Rainforest Reserve has numerous streams and the Siquirres River running within its boundaries, several of the small streams actually originate fully within the private property. There is an amazing diversity of both flora and fauna that is associated with riparian habitats within the Guayacan Rainforest Reserve.

19/03/2026

A nice female hognosed viper (Porthidium nastum) that we saw during the night hike tonight in the Guayacan Rainforest Reserve.

It is always fun to get an ultraviolet light out and scan surrounding forest within the Guayacan Rainforest Reserve for ...
14/03/2026

It is always fun to get an ultraviolet light out and scan surrounding forest within the Guayacan Rainforest Reserve for flourescing plants and animals. Some of the most impressive examples are scorpions (Order: Scorpiones) and certain species of daddy longlegs (Order: Opiliones).

Two male Agalychnis lemur that we observed fighting during a night hike last night.
10/03/2026

Two male Agalychnis lemur that we observed fighting during a night hike last night.

05/02/2026

A White-nosed Coati (Nasua narica) visiting the garden today. Can you hear the Talamancan Rocket Frog (Allobates talamancae), Yellow-striped Poison Frog (Phyllobates lugubris), Red Poison Frog (Oophaga pumilio), and Fitzinger's Dirt Frog (Craugastor fitzingeri) calling in the background during the video?

29/01/2026

A fer-de-lance (Bothrops asper) observed on the edge of a small pool in a stream in the Guayacan Rainforest Reserve on a tour last night. Fer-de-lance is a viper species commonly seen within the Guayacan Rainforest Reserve. Five different viper species are known to inhabit the reserve.

It is always nice to see the flower mimicking crab spider (Epicadus heterogaster). We observed this beautiful species t...
22/01/2026

It is always nice to see the flower mimicking crab spider (Epicadus heterogaster). We observed this beautiful species tonight on a night hike in the Guayacan Rainforest Reserve, sitting on the vegetation alongside the trail.

18/01/2026

A couple weeks ago one of our visitors was lucky enough to encounter two young ocelots during a night hike on one of the trails in the Guayacan Rainforest Reserve. Here are the two short videos that Sean Kim was able to take of the wild cats he encountered here.

"Revised taxonomy and distributions of Costa Rican moss salamanders (Caudata: Plethodontidae: Nototriton), with descript...
18/12/2025

"Revised taxonomy and distributions of Costa Rican moss salamanders (Caudata: Plethodontidae: Nototriton), with descriptions of new taxa" TO VIEW THE PUBLICATION CLICK ON THE LINK BELOW

https://cramphibian.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/kubicki_et_al_2022_nototriton_revision.pdf

15/12/2025

A short video showing a small example of some of the orchid diversity in the Guayacan Rainforest Reserve.

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