Water resource planning area 2021 wetland system extents

Definition of water resource planning area

based on wetland mapping version 7.0

2021 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	422,155	1,585,232	1,226	1,010,386	51,653	76	5,333,512	66,505	4,103,039	12,573,784
Baffle Creek Basin	411,254	1,024	14,256		13	144	3	10,778	333	7,189	33,740
Barron	519,756	5,675	999	< 1	49	323	< 1	507	119	9,925	17,599
Border Rivers and Moonie	3,848,563	25,691			222	1,444		6,494	2,417	32,859	69,127
Boyne River Basin	250,213	2,071	1,620	8		4,226		4	36	3,998	11,963
Burdekin Basin	13,407,650	43,770	31,615	365	5,990	5,659	3	50,297	11,035	324,233	472,967
Burnett Basin	3,827,096	22,736	4,091	17		1,331	2	7,810	327	48,509	84,823
Calliope River Basin	223,608	630	7,657	27	22	160	< 1	49	34	976	9,556
Cape York	10,680,539	2,678	216,305		5,364	197		261,720	305	86,596	573,166
Condamine and Balonne	8,856,332	64,381			337	2,096	< 1	13,487	5,077	44,666	130,045
Cooper Creek	24,391,845	4,137			166,899	2,012	2	503,866	1,102	275,623	953,642
Fitzroy Basin	14,262,796	59,548	29,921	46	6,508	7,304	6	31,971	12,950	150,960	299,212
Georgina and Diamantina	26,600,964	3,882			276,786	1,314		1,092,233	360	501,497	1,876,071
Gold Coast	130,370	2,295	3,302			414	< 1	1,706	526	1,311	9,556
Great Artesian Basin and Other Regional Aquifers	122,289,235	116,128	696,221		499,895	13,066	17	2,541,851	18,425	1,576,086	5,461,689
Gulf	31,608,012	14,403	457,542		3,158	4,431	11	274,880	3,223	705,035	1,462,682
Logan Basin	415,282	3,287	2,118	27		172	2	3,158	197	3,743	12,703
Mary Basin	1,343,931	6,636	14,686	282	252	717	8	47,362	1,318	23,293	94,553
Mitchell	6,868,754	1,516	51,004		1,298	3,928		90,941	461	157,815	306,964
Moreton	1,562,430	24,552	7,197	262		1,016	11	12,898	1,250	24,121	71,308
Pioneer Valley	242,308	3,254	2,799	1	13	10		1,465	137	5,391	13,070
Warrego, Paroo, Bulloo and Nebine	18,759,198	3,497			43,367	1,432		335,580	3,895	80,133	467,904
Wet Tropics	1,949,368	5,511	37,713	190	212	242	7	37,678	1,417	36,000	118,969
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.