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title: "Rana Geografica"
description: "Boana geographica — Anfibios. The map tree frog (Boana geographica) is a species of frog in the family Hylidae found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/es/animal/map-tree-frog
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Rana Geografica

> Boana geographica — Anfibios. The map tree frog (Boana geographica) is a species of frog in the family Hylidae found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela.

- Scientific name: *Boana geographica*
- Category: `amphibians` (Anfibios)
- Habitats: `forest` (Bosque), `grassland` (Praderas y campos), `freshwater` (Lagos y ríos), `urban` (Ciudades y jardines), `savanna` (Sabana)
- iNaturalist observations: 817
- iNaturalist taxon: [555107](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/555107)

## Names

- en: Map Tree Frog
- de: Landkarten-Laubfrosch
- es: Rana Geografica
- fr: Rainette de Spix

## Countries with the most observations

PE (267), BR (125), TT (76), BO (56), GY (11), EC (7), CO (3), SR (3)

## Summary

The map tree frog (Boana geographica) is a species of frog in the family Hylidae found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, moist savanna, subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland, rivers, freshwater lakes, intermittent freshwater lakes, freshwater marshes, plantations, rural gardens, heavily degraded former forests, ponds, and aquaculture ponds.  It was previously known as Hyla geographica. The name comes…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Map_tree_frog

## Photo

![Rana Geografica](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/map-tree-frog/medium.jpg)

Photo: Ben Keen · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/109996705

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/map-tree-frog?lang=es` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).