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Water resource planning area pre-clear wetland system extents

Definition of water resource planning area

based on wetland mapping version 7.0 metadata

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Pre-clear wetland system extent by water resource planning area metadata
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Water resource planning area Total area
(ha)
Wetland area by system Total
wetland area
(ha)
intertidal (saltmarsh, saltflats, mangroves) (natural) lacustrine (natural) palustrine (natural) riverine
Total 292,655,161 1,609,093 1,017,418 5,549,051 4,263,870 12,439,432
Baffle Creek Basin 411,254 14,350 13 13,928 8,723 37,014
Barron 519,756 1,358 49 1,631 12,100 15,139
Border Rivers and Moonie 3,848,563 293 10,784 45,478 56,555
Boyne River Basin 250,213 2,554 147 4,837 7,538
Burdekin Basin 13,407,650 36,590 6,083 57,712 343,508 443,893
Burnett Basin 3,827,096 4,702 13,645 75,332 93,679
Calliope River Basin 223,608 8,720 22 48 1,220 10,010
Cape York 10,680,539 217,030 5,426 262,635 86,853 571,945
Condamine and Balonne 8,856,332 1,927 18,167 47,207 67,300
Cooper Creek 24,391,845 167,093 505,906 280,184 953,183
Fitzroy Basin 14,262,796 35,165 7,316 48,999 166,618 258,099
Georgina and Diamantina 26,600,964 276,990 1,092,485 502,297 1,871,772
Gold Coast 130,370 4,901 12,731 3,273 20,905
Great Artesian Basin and Other Regional Aquifers 122,289,235 696,989 503,139 2,569,821 1,586,310 5,356,259
Gulf 31,608,012 457,625 3,515 277,766 711,861 1,450,767
Logan Basin 415,282 2,716 8,901 7,215 18,832
Mary Basin 1,343,931 15,295 252 75,180 38,826 129,553
Mitchell 6,868,754 51,008 1,313 92,123 158,268 302,712
Moreton 1,562,430 10,311 37,380 40,030 87,721
Pioneer Valley 242,308 3,166 15,311 8,203 26,680
Warrego, Paroo, Bulloo and Nebine 18,759,198 43,783 341,977 84,325 470,085
Wet Tropics 1,949,368 40,139 203 79,241 47,815 167,398
Whitsunday 205,658 6,475 12,532 3,387 22,393

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, Science and Innovation, Queensland (2022) Water resource planning area pre-clear wetland system extents, WetlandInfo website, accessed 8 May 2025. Available at: https://wetlandinfo.des.qld.gov.au/wetlands/ecology/statistics/wetland-extent-pre-clear/water-resource-planning-area.html

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