Water resource planning area 2017 wetland system extents

Definition of water resource planning area

based on wetland mapping version 7.0

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)	lacustrine (unknown degree of modification)	palustrine (natural)	palustrine (slightly modified)	riverine
Total	292,655,161	418,439	1,585,235	1,229	1,010,442	51,493	76	5,335,817	66,229	4,106,182	12,575,142
Baffle Creek Basin	411,254	1,022	14,257		13	144	3	10,801	333	7,198	33,772
Barron	519,756	5,624	999	< 1	49	326	< 1	507	119	9,934	17,559
Border Rivers and Moonie	3,848,563	25,523			222	1,431		6,576	2,386	33,100	69,238
Boyne River Basin	250,213	2,060	1,620	8		4,226		4	36	4,001	11,955
Burdekin Basin	13,407,650	43,285	31,615	365	5,990	5,616	3	50,404	11,035	324,625	472,938
Burnett Basin	3,827,096	22,712	4,092	17		1,331	2	7,841	327	48,677	84,999
Calliope River Basin	223,608	630	7,656	27	22	160	< 1	49	34	976	9,555
Cape York	10,680,539	2,276	216,306		5,364	182		261,731	305	86,659	572,824
Condamine and Balonne	8,856,332	64,113			337	2,093	< 1	13,527	5,077	44,782	129,929
Cooper Creek	24,391,845	4,126			166,915	2,009	2	504,079	1,102	275,745	953,977
Fitzroy Basin	14,262,796	59,017	29,921	46	6,512	7,280	6	32,202	12,899	151,442	299,325
Georgina and Diamantina	26,600,964	3,817			276,773	1,311		1,092,237	351	501,490	1,875,979
Gold Coast	130,370	2,298	3,275			413	< 1	1,734	524	1,313	9,558
Great Artesian Basin and Other Regional Aquifers	122,289,235	114,970	696,225		499,923	13,032	17	2,542,649	18,326	1,576,972	5,462,114
Gulf	31,608,012	14,050	457,546		3,158	4,430	11	274,933	3,223	705,032	1,462,382
Logan Basin	415,282	3,273	2,116	27		170	2	3,168	200	3,745	12,701
Mary Basin	1,343,931	6,626	14,687	282	252	722	8	47,503	1,239	23,380	94,698
Mitchell	6,868,754	1,443	51,004		1,298	3,926		90,948	461	157,847	306,928
Moreton	1,562,430	24,526	7,215	265		998	11	13,044	1,233	24,154	71,447
Pioneer Valley	242,308	3,243	2,800	2	13	7		1,467	137	5,395	13,063
Warrego, Paroo, Bulloo and Nebine	18,759,198	3,483			43,386	1,432		335,952	3,895	80,632	468,780
Wet Tropics	1,949,368	5,471	37,713	190	212	241	7	37,704	1,404	36,004	118,946
Whitsunday	205,658	4,852	6,186			14	2	6,759	1,583	3,080	22,475

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.