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Water resource planning area 2019 wetland habitat extents

Definition of water resource planning area

based on wetland mapping version 7.0 metadata

Display areas in
2019 wetland habitat extent by water resource planning area metadata
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Water resource planning area Total area
(ha)		 Wetland area by habitat Total
wetland area
(ha)
INT01a INT01b INT02 LA14 LA15 LC06 LC07 LC08a LC08b LC09 PA10 PA11a PA11b PA11c PA12a PA12b PA12c PA12d PA13 PC02a PC02b PC02c PC02d PC04a PC04c PC04d PC04e PC05 XX99-P-A XX99-P-C
Total 292,655,161 3,351 518,778 1,025,564 921,312 52,628 11,538 156 10,125 10 2,179 159,851 205,993 2,747,944 165,170 287,905 274,318 383,952 5,864 74 459,515 10,411 260,483 16,320 146,362 221,904 19,923 43 3,450 990 785 7,916,899
Baffle Creek Basin 411,254 562 8,549 5,139 13 3,568 467 53 5,998 327 712 25,390
Barron 519,756 971 23 49 143 162 207 3 26 85 1,670
Border Rivers and Moonie 3,848,563 28 363 382 72 10 60 44 242 180 1,715 5,353 89 283 8,820
Boyne River Basin 250,213 2 807 820 3 37 1,669
Burdekin Basin 13,407,650 14,604 4,432 206 1,559 688 109 34 7,735 461 16,660 15,207 257 37 866 4,810 275 1,021 12,364 796 107 82,230
Burnett Basin 3,827,096 147 3,141 820 13 1,020 1,026 303 515 2,185 873 2,222 12,266
Calliope River Basin 223,608 3,970 685 22 4 52 15 12 4,760
Cape York 10,680,539 129,954 86,059 4,940 132,396 247 92,354 9,562 19,892 3,972 33 479,408
Condamine and Balonne 8,856,332 9 387 1,655 195 1,203 2,642 353 2,743 987 298 3,319 4,424 423 < 1 18,638
Cooper Creek 24,391,845 145,556 20,840 31,598 16,232 394,552 18,050 3,988 6,121 33,083 2 11 670,033
Fitzroy Basin 14,262,796 9,287 1,904 6,935 55 6,089 2,833 4,321 19,682 11,735 62,843
Georgina and Diamantina 26,600,964 275,723 30,922 25,529 913,252 19,721 230 62,210 37,921 1,365,508
Gold Coast 130,370 510 2,099 644 82 27 19 1,837 281 < 1 5,501
Great Artesian Basin and Other Regional Aquifers 122,289,235 193,533 500,874 460,604 25,766 3,130 4,931 1,007 79,926 99,764 1,372,173 82,147 129,008 129,796 180,048 2,820 37 212,970 258 122,133 5,873 32,693 92,802 3,973 29 40 3,736,335
Gulf 31,608,012 83,816 372,425 900 1,007 37,986 1,362 15,076 98,747 4,175 8,901 37,000 28,989 9,770 33,852 164 380 734,551
Logan Basin 415,282 260 1,380 490 136 6 2,584 630 5 5,492
Mary Basin 1,343,931 1,113 9,084 4,768 242 10 11,059 8,287 996 20,188 652 7,540 63,938
Mitchell 6,868,754 12,477 38,291 3,910 930 42,369 2,090 3,537 36,187 11 12 12 139,827
Moreton 1,562,430 757 4,413 2,213 1,523 98 38 9,707 2,153 708 21,610
Pioneer Valley 242,308 2,321 478 773 290 332 206 4,401
Warrego, Paroo, Bulloo and Nebine 18,759,198 38,324 4,425 17,371 16,710 66,411 29,642 33,601 69,374 104,425 63 1 14 3 323 380,685
Wet Tropics 1,949,368 33,464 4,217 107 548 3,025 6,979 2,297 249 15,676 6,159 505 33 3,379 161 76,799
Whitsunday 205,658 4,905 1,282 1,249 2,614 1,262 3,215 14,526

Note that these totals may be lower than the Queensland totals due to incomplete coverage of water resource planning areas.

Wetland habitat code descriptions
INT01a Mangroves - Casuarina
INT01b Mangroves - other
INT02 Salt marsh and salt flats
LA14 Arid and semi-arid saline lake
LA15 Arid and semi-arid floodplain lake
LC06 Coastal and sub-coastal floodplain lake
LC07 Coastal and sub-coastal non-floodplain rock lake
LC08a Coastal and sub-coastal non-floodplain sand (window) lake
LC08b Coastal and sub-coastal non-floodplain sand (perched) lake
LC09 Coastal and sub-coastal non-floodplain soil lake
PA10 Arid and semi-arid saline swamp
PA11a Arid and semi-arid floodplain tree swamp
PA11b Arid and semi-arid floodplain shrub swamp
PA11c Arid and semi-arid floodplain grass, sedge and herb swamp
PA12a Arid and semi-arid non-floodplain tree swamp
PA12b Arid and semi-arid non-floodplain shrub swamp
PA12c Arid and semi-arid non-floodplain grass, sedge and herb swamp
PA12d Arid and semi-arid other non-floodplain swamp
PA13 Arid and semi-arid Great Artesian Basin fed spring swamp
PC02a Coastal and sub-coastal non-floodplain tree (Melaleuca and Eucalypt) swamp
PC02b Coastal and sub-coastal non-floodplain wet heath swamp
PC02c Coastal and sub-coastal non-floodplain grass, sedge, and herb swamp
PC02d Coastal and sub-coastal other non-floodplain swamp
PC04a Coastal and sub-coastal floodplain tree (Melaleuca and Eucalypt) swamp
PC04c Coastal and sub-coastal floodplain grass, sedge, and herb swamp
PC04d Coastal and sub-coastal floodplain wet heath swamp
PC04e Coastal and sub-coastal other floodplain swamp
PC05 Coastal and sub-coastal tree (palm) swamp
XX99-P-A Unknown - Swamp - Arid and semi-arid
XX99-P-C Unknown - Swamp - Coastal and sub-coastal

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 2019 wetland habitat extents, WetlandInfo website, accessed 8 May 2025. Available at: https://wetlandinfo.des.qld.gov.au/wetlands/ecology/statistics/wetland-habitat-2019/water-resource-planning-area.html

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