It is probably at least 70 feet - there are trees near it around 100+ - but they tend to be things like Corteza.

Almendro will get 200 feet tall - very hard wood too.

I am just getting started tree climbing, so this should make a good starter for me.

Leon, I do think they are in the same family as the one in Hawaii.

We have some wild fig that is pretty huge to climb on the finca - I probably have a lifetime of monster trees to climb. This one just happens to be out my back door - nice to have such a good one.

I think the canopy on the trees is around 150 feet - that should give you a reference. However, I have never paced it off. All I know is that it is huge.

crtreedude, is Guancaste the same as Enterolobium cyclocarpum? That's what we call earpod here. I've been told that they are one and the same. I think we're talking about the same tree.

Sounds like you have some awesome climbing trees there. Ficus can be great fun. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe Almendro is a species of Terminalia. If so, they are truly beautiful trees, really cool branch structure and trunks that just reach straight up to the sky.

Time for a rec climbing get together down on the Finca!

Yes, you are correct - they have the same scientific name, so I guess they are the same.

Missed on the Almendro - it is Dipteryx panamensis http://www.fincaleola.com/almendro1.htm

But I am sure it would be fun to climb - if you like heights! It is an emergant. (200 feet)

That is going to be one SRT accent of about 150 feet before the first limb.

Cebo is the favority tree of the monkeys that I have seen - that and Ojoches. Perhaps I should take a clue from them?

A climbing party would be fun - as long as someone comes as a trainer for me!

Maybe you can schedule a get together, that would give me something to shoot for. Heck I already made it to New Jersey, Costa Rica is just a few miles south of there.

Continental Flight 1905 from Newark, less than 5 hours - direct flight.

See, it is really close!