Water resource planning area 2017 wetland system extents

Definition of water resource planning area

based on wetland mapping version 6.0

2017 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	410,680	1,556,210	1,183	1,011,331	49,235	5,310,499	60,561	3,835,109	12,234,809
Baffle Creek Basin	411,254	1,018	14,245		13	140	10,403	293	6,805	32,918
Barron	519,756	5,620	977	< 1	49	286	479	144	9,755	17,311
Border Rivers and Moonie	3,848,563	23,334			207	1,359	5,136	1,713	32,762	64,511
Boyne River Basin	250,213	2,066	1,601	5		4,218	4	36	3,809	11,739
Burdekin Basin	13,407,650	42,911	31,561	365	5,488	5,532	54,694	10,846	324,053	475,450
Burnett Basin	3,827,096	22,708	4,019	17		1,325	7,514	328	46,967	82,878
Calliope River Basin	223,608	631	7,656	26	22	160	49	34	946	9,525
Cape York	10,680,539	2,270	215,895		5,407	183	258,434	305	86,235	568,729
Condamine and Balonne	8,856,332	63,003			363	2,008	11,971	4,859	45,344	127,548
Cooper Creek	24,391,845	4,148			165,998	1,957	504,315	1,019	223,577	901,014
Fitzroy Basin	14,262,796	58,796	29,905	30	6,778	6,543	31,718	12,787	147,979	294,537
Georgina and Diamantina	26,600,964	3,739			278,566	1,282	1,089,860	351	432,267	1,806,065
Gold Coast	130,370	2,317	3,297			407	1,729	524	1,315	9,589
Great Artesian Basin and Other Regional Aquifers	122,289,235	111,287	681,961		500,321	12,259	2,529,836	15,704	1,445,865	5,297,233
Gulf	31,608,012	14,214	457,541		3,207	4,115	274,158	2,231	703,935	1,459,400
Logan Basin	415,282	3,285	2,128	< 1		165	3,202	145	3,520	12,444
Mary Basin	1,343,931	6,620	14,653	282	252	721	47,459	1,183	22,477	93,647
Mitchell	6,868,754	1,446	37,202		1,299	3,926	86,819	113	156,407	287,212
Moreton	1,562,430	24,506	7,217	265		966	13,078	1,212	23,685	70,928
Pioneer Valley	242,308	3,186	2,804	1	13	7	1,473	131	4,748	12,363
Warrego, Paroo, Bulloo and Nebine	18,759,198	3,392			43,137	1,428	334,737	3,654	74,337	460,686
Wet Tropics	1,949,368	5,332	37,362	190	212	232	36,704	1,366	35,247	116,644
Whitsunday	205,658	4,852	6,185			16	6,729	1,583	3,074	22,438

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.