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Water resource planning area 2013 wetland system extents

Definition of water resource planning area

based on wetland mapping version 5.0 metadata

2013 wetland system extent by water resource planning area metadata
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Water resource planning area Total area
(km²)
Wetland area by system Total
wetland area
(km²)
artificial and
highly modified
estuarine lacustrine palustrine riverine
Total 2,926,551.6 4,369.2 15,709.2 10,750.9 58,359.4 38,966.5 128,155.1
Baffle Creek Basin 4,112.5 8.0 143.2 1.9 108.4 77.1 338.6
Barron 5,197.6 59.6 9.8 1.7 7.5 105.8 184.4
Border Rivers and Moonie 38,485.6 242.8 0.0 7.3 74.0 332.6 656.7
Boyne River Basin 2,502.1 71.6 16.3 0.2 0.3 44.3 132.6
Burdekin Basin 134,076.5 468.0 321.5 91.5 615.1 3,100.0 4,596.2
Burnett Basin 38,271.0 237.9 41.3 3.7 79.5 420.3 782.7
Calliope River Basin 2,236.1 6.8 76.8 1.7 1.2 10.7 97.1
Cape York 106,805.4 18.5 2,338.0 58.5 2,426.3 810.7 5,652.1
Condamine and Balonne 88,563.3 631.7 0.0 32.9 149.1 433.9 1,247.7
Cooper Creek 243,918.5 57.3 0.0 1,713.3 6,566.2 1,905.8 10,242.6
Fitzroy Basin 142,628.0 604.0 302.2 82.0 456.9 1,550.1 2,995.1
Georgina and Diamantina 266,009.6 44.7 0.0 2,815.9 11,539.3 4,893.3 19,293.2
Gold Coast 1,303.7 34.1 34.7 5.5 18.5 12.7 105.5
Great Artesian Basin and Other Regional Aquifers 1,222,892.3 1,159.6 6,869.0 5,288.3 27,826.8 14,515.1 55,658.7
Gulf 316,080.1 160.7 4,400.1 92.1 2,692.0 7,548.6 14,893.5
Logan Basin 4,152.8 31.0 21.5 1.6 34.8 32.8 121.6
Mary Basin 13,439.3 60.8 148.0 4.1 484.9 265.5 963.2
Mitchell 68,687.5 50.3 435.6 17.0 844.5 1,624.1 2,971.4
Moreton 15,624.3 249.0 77.5 6.1 140.4 237.5 710.4
Pioneer Valley 2,423.1 29.8 29.4 0.1 5.0 55.4 119.7
Warrego, Paroo, Bulloo and Nebine 187,592.0 44.4 0.0 520.1 3,854.8 613.0 5,032.3
Wet Tropics 19,493.7 53.0 383.3 3.5 367.5 344.9 1,152.2
Whitsunday 2,056.6 45.6 61.1 1.5 66.5 32.4 207.2

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 and Science, Queensland (2015) Water resource planning area 2013 wetland system extents, WetlandInfo website, accessed 13 April 2023. Available at: https://wetlandinfo.des.qld.gov.au/wetlands/ecology/statistics/wetland-extent-2013/water-resource-planning-area.html

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