Water resource planning area 2019 wetland system extents

Definition of water resource planning area

based on wetland mapping version 7.0

2019 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	420,491	1,585,210	1,226	1,010,441	51,554	76	5,334,757	66,482	4,104,343	12,574,580
Baffle Creek Basin	411,254	1,021	14,256		13	144	3	10,793	333	7,197	33,761
Barron	519,756	5,655	999	< 1	49	322	< 1	507	119	9,934	17,586
Border Rivers and Moonie	3,848,563	25,616			222	1,444		6,505	2,417	32,940	69,145
Boyne River Basin	250,213	2,060	1,620	8		4,226		4	36	4,000	11,955
Burdekin Basin	13,407,650	43,496	31,615	365	5,990	5,622	3	50,385	11,035	324,438	472,948
Burnett Basin	3,827,096	22,730	4,092	17		1,331	2	7,825	327	48,615	84,938
Calliope River Basin	223,608	630	7,656	27	22	160	< 1	49	34	976	9,555
Cape York	10,680,539	2,573	216,306		5,364	184		261,720	305	86,658	573,112
Condamine and Balonne	8,856,332	64,353			337	2,096	< 1	13,497	5,077	44,690	130,051
Cooper Creek	24,391,845	4,136			166,915	2,009	2	504,075	1,102	275,737	953,976
Fitzroy Basin	14,262,796	59,143	29,921	46	6,512	7,282	6	32,054	12,953	151,246	299,163
Georgina and Diamantina	26,600,964	3,868			276,773	1,311		1,092,228	360	501,490	1,876,030
Gold Coast	130,370	2,300	3,273			414	< 1	1,727	524	1,311	9,550
Great Artesian Basin and Other Regional Aquifers	122,289,235	115,776	696,221		499,923	13,052	17	2,542,270	18,410	1,576,370	5,462,039
Gulf	31,608,012	14,126	457,542		3,158	4,431	11	274,925	3,223	704,956	1,462,372
Logan Basin	415,282	3,277	2,116	27		170	2	3,166	199	3,744	12,700
Mary Basin	1,343,931	6,629	14,686	282	252	723	8	47,405	1,318	23,327	94,630
Mitchell	6,868,754	1,480	51,004		1,298	3,928		90,948	461	157,819	306,938
Moreton	1,562,430	24,530	7,204	262		1,008	11	12,992	1,238	24,135	71,380
Pioneer Valley	242,308	3,254	2,799	2	13	10		1,465	137	5,394	13,073
Warrego, Paroo, Bulloo and Nebine	18,759,198	3,497			43,386	1,432		335,751	3,895	80,286	468,248
Wet Tropics	1,949,368	5,488	37,713	190	212	241	7	37,687	1,417	36,002	118,957
Whitsunday	205,658	4,852	6,187			15	2	6,777	1,562	3,080	22,474

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.