Water resource planning area 2013 wetland system extents

Definition of water resource planning area

based on wetland mapping version 6.0

2013 wetland system extent by water resource planning area
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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)	palustrine (natural)	palustrine (slightly modified)	riverine
Total	292,655,161	403,014	1,556,584	936	1,011,331	49,116	5,312,046	59,826	3,845,617	12,238,469
Baffle Creek Basin	411,254	1,001	14,255		13	139	10,486	293	6,814	33,000
Barron	519,756	5,581	977	< 1	49	286	479	144	9,786	17,303
Border Rivers and Moonie	3,848,563	22,945			207	1,359	5,199	1,726	32,885	64,320
Boyne River Basin	250,213	2,063	1,604	5		4,218	4	36	3,812	11,742
Burdekin Basin	13,407,650	42,252	31,809	365	5,488	5,496	54,680	10,613	324,288	474,992
Burnett Basin	3,827,096	22,621	4,021	17		1,318	7,528	328	47,088	82,921
Calliope River Basin	223,608	618	7,660	26	22	173	49	34	947	9,529
Cape York	10,680,539	2,021	215,895		5,407	183	258,434	305	86,236	568,482
Condamine and Balonne	8,856,332	62,001			363	2,007	12,028	4,852	45,470	126,721
Cooper Creek	24,391,845	4,095			165,998	1,957	504,293	1,019	223,780	901,143
Fitzroy Basin	14,262,796	56,522	29,905	30	6,778	6,537	32,068	12,802	148,428	293,070
Georgina and Diamantina	26,600,964	3,598			278,566	1,276	1,089,864	351	432,267	1,805,923
Gold Coast	130,370	2,282	3,296			407	1,727	513	1,312	9,537
Great Artesian Basin and Other Regional Aquifers	122,289,235	108,731	681,964		500,321	12,246	2,530,253	15,688	1,450,648	5,299,851
Gulf	31,608,012	13,722	457,544		3,206	4,117	274,354	2,210	708,014	1,463,167
Logan Basin	415,282	3,264	2,128	< 1		165	3,199	148	3,522	12,426
Mary Basin	1,343,931	7,268	14,653	31	252	685	47,504	727	22,508	93,628
Mitchell	6,868,754	1,378	37,202		1,299	3,926	86,894	113	156,413	287,226
Moreton	1,562,430	24,423	7,325	269		942	13,173	1,195	23,699	71,027
Pioneer Valley	242,308	3,171	2,802	1	13	7	1,478	132	4,754	12,358
Warrego, Paroo, Bulloo and Nebine	18,759,198	3,332			43,137	1,428	334,831	3,654	74,593	460,974
Wet Tropics	1,949,368	5,319	37,364	190	212	227	36,789	1,360	35,265	116,725
Whitsunday	205,658	4,806	6,179			16	6,731	1,583	3,089	22,404

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.