Cloud Forest

The Maquipucuna Cloud Forest Reserve is located on the western flank of the Andes Cordillera, only a two hour drive from Quito, which makes it an excellent one or two day trip from the capital...

To visit the El Monte eco-lodge is to feel the lushness of Tropical Cloud Forest. You will stay in private riverside cabañas and see firsthand the moss covered trees, crystal clear streams, spectacular orchids and exotic birds, and wake to a symphony of forest noises...

Located at a latitude of 00'46'' in the cloud forest of northwestern Ecuador, the reserve is sits at the edge of the Choco bio-region, one of the world’s most diverse regions...

The community of Santa Lucia, situated on the N. W. slopes of the Andes in Ecuador, was originally an agricultural/ livestock cooperative whose major purpose was to distribute land for peasant settlers...