Trópico Rural

Tropico Rural S.A., a privately owned company headquartered in Costa Rica, was founded in March 2023 by filmmaker Carlos Gómez de la Espriella and environmentalist practitioners Irene Burgués Arrea and Mario Carballo. With approximately 10 employees, the company reported $1.2M in revenue as of 2024. Functioning as a private commercial independent film and audiovisual production company, Tropico Rural specializes in media managed services. The firm's operations are based in the regional hub of Santa Cruz, within the Nicoya Peninsula of the Guanacaste Province, focusing on ethnographic, cultural, and eco-centric documentary content. It utilizes a flexible network of field technicians and environmental researchers to document the ecological heritage and changing rural landscapes of the intertropical zones.