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Water resource planning area 2009 wetland system extents

Definition of water resource planning area

based on wetland mapping version 7.0 metadata

Display areas in
2009 wetland system extent by water resource planning area metadata
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Water resource planning area Total area
(ha)
Wetland area by system Total
wetland area
(ha)
artificial and highly modified intertidal (saltmarsh, saltflats, mangroves) (natural) intertidal (saltmarsh, saltflats, mangroves) (slightly modified) lacustrine (natural) lacustrine (slightly modified) lacustrine (unknown degree of modification) palustrine (natural) palustrine (slightly modified) riverine
Total 292,655,161 401,256 1,585,873 926 1,010,632 50,787 75 5,339,963 64,360 4,118,098 12,571,969
Baffle Creek Basin 411,254 976 14,270 13 144 3 10,865 333 7,213 33,816
Barron 519,756 5,553 998 2 49 321 510 119 9,944 17,495
Border Rivers and Moonie 3,848,563 24,698 222 1,428 6,802 2,364 33,235 68,750
Boyne River Basin 250,213 1,828 1,623 8 4,226 4 36 4,023 11,748
Burdekin Basin 13,407,650 42,014 31,865 364 5,990 5,573 7 50,478 10,671 325,326 472,289
Burnett Basin 3,827,096 22,381 4,104 17 1,324 2 7,860 307 48,832 84,828
Calliope River Basin 223,608 566 7,955 4 22 29 < 1 49 34 976 9,635
Cape York 10,680,539 1,890 216,300 5,364 178 261,797 305 86,663 572,498
Condamine and Balonne 8,856,332 62,189 337 2,052 13,864 5,002 44,990 128,434
Cooper Creek 24,391,845 4,044 166,926 1,997 2 504,068 1,102 275,949 954,089
Fitzroy Basin 14,262,796 54,052 29,921 46 6,597 7,237 4 32,800 12,874 152,138 295,668
Georgina and Diamantina 26,600,964 3,595 276,773 1,305 1,092,243 351 501,496 1,875,762
Gold Coast 130,370 2,267 3,278 407 < 1 1,736 513 1,309 9,512
Great Artesian Basin and Other Regional Aquifers 122,289,235 110,181 696,228 500,018 12,870 15 2,544,111 17,894 1,582,022 5,463,338
Gulf 31,608,012 13,013 457,549 3,158 4,338 11 275,492 2,945 709,176 1,465,684
Logan Basin 415,282 2,060 2,115 27 165 2 3,170 204 3,864 11,607
Mary Basin 1,343,931 7,444 14,678 4 252 673 8 47,622 609 23,425 94,715
Mitchell 6,868,754 1,353 51,004 1,298 3,926 91,024 460 157,718 306,784
Moreton 1,562,430 24,309 7,313 263 905 11 13,196 1,222 24,163 71,382
Pioneer Valley 242,308 3,216 2,773 2 13 8 1,502 137 5,402 13,052
Warrego, Paroo, Bulloo and Nebine 18,759,198 3,374 43,386 1,432 336,165 3,895 81,110 469,363
Wet Tropics 1,949,368 5,452 37,711 190 212 236 7 37,812 1,401 36,020 119,040
Whitsunday 205,658 4,799 6,186 14 2 6,792 1,583 3,103 22,479

Note that these totals may be lower than the Queensland totals due to incomplete coverage of water resource planning areas.

Disclaimer

Areas do not include marine or estuarine waters but do include estuarine wetland vegetation
(e.g. mangroves and tidal flats).

All statistics are approximate and generated based on data transformed to a customised Albers equal-area projection, thus allowing wetland extent change for different regions of Queensland to be comparable.

Areas may change over time as mapping approaches improve.

Totals may not match the sum of individually displayed figures due to the rounding of displayed figures.


This page should be cited as:

Department of Environment, Science and Innovation, Queensland (2022) Water resource planning area 2009 wetland system extents, WetlandInfo website, accessed 8 May 2025. Available at: https://wetlandinfo.des.qld.gov.au/wetlands/ecology/statistics/wetland-extent-2009/water-resource-planning-area.html

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