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Water resource planning area 2021 wetland habitat extents

Definition of water resource planning area

based on wetland mapping version 7.0 metadata

Display areas in
2021 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 LA17 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 3,375 519,170 1,025,168 921,251 52,628 1,355 11,536 156 10,125 10 2,179 159,593 205,923 2,747,940 165,174 287,725 274,152 383,722 5,864 74 459,480 10,407 260,411 16,311 146,195 221,898 19,910 43 3,447 990 785 7,916,997
Baffle Creek Basin 411,254 562 8,549 5,139 13 3,561 465 53 5,993 327 711 25,375
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 5,341 89 283 8,809
Boyne River Basin 250,213 2 807 820 3 37 1,669
Burdekin Basin 13,407,650 14,605 4,432 206 1,559 5 688 109 34 7,735 461 16,647 15,141 257 37 860 4,810 272 1,021 12,364 796 107 82,148
Burnett Basin 3,827,096 147 3,141 819 13 1,017 1,026 302 511 2,177 872 2,224 12,250
Calliope River Basin 223,608 3,971 685 22 4 52 15 12 4,761
Cape York 10,680,539 129,954 86,058 4,940 132,396 247 92,354 9,562 19,892 3,972 33 479,406
Condamine and Balonne 8,856,332 9 387 1,655 195 1,194 2,642 353 2,743 987 298 3,318 4,423 423 < 1 18,627
Cooper Creek 24,391,845 145,539 20,840 31,476 16,197 394,552 18,050 3,933 6,121 33,084 2 11 669,808
Fitzroy Basin 14,262,796 9,287 1,904 6,935 55 6,086 2,775 4,319 19,668 11,734 62,764
Georgina and Diamantina 26,600,964 275,728 30,916 25,530 913,252 19,723 230 62,211 37,928 1,365,517
Gold Coast 130,370 527 2,369 387 82 27 7 1,831 281 < 1 5,512
Great Artesian Basin and Other Regional Aquifers 122,289,235 193,533 500,874 460,573 25,766 116 3,129 4,931 1,007 79,796 99,729 1,372,171 82,149 128,928 129,713 179,987 2,820 37 212,968 258 122,133 5,872 32,681 92,800 3,973 29 40 3,736,014
Gulf 31,608,012 83,816 372,425 900 1,234 1,007 37,986 1,362 15,076 98,739 4,175 8,864 37,000 28,989 9,770 33,852 164 380 735,739
Logan Basin 415,282 267 1,492 372 136 6 2,575 630 5 5,482
Mary Basin 1,343,931 1,113 9,085 4,767 242 10 11,051 8,286 996 20,159 651 7,536 63,896
Mitchell 6,868,754 12,477 38,291 3,908 925 42,369 2,090 3,537 36,187 11 12 12 139,819
Moreton 1,562,430 757 4,423 2,196 1,521 97 38 9,639 2,152 699 21,521
Pioneer Valley 242,308 2,321 478 773 290 332 206 4,401
Warrego, Paroo, Bulloo and Nebine 18,759,198 38,304 4,425 17,370 16,710 66,408 29,642 33,587 69,290 104,356 63 1 14 3 323 380,494
Wet Tropics 1,949,368 33,464 4,217 107 548 3,025 6,976 2,297 249 15,673 6,159 505 33 3,376 161 76,790
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
LA17 Arid and semi-arid permanently inundated 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 2021 wetland habitat extents, WetlandInfo website, accessed 8 May 2025. Available at: https://wetlandinfo.des.qld.gov.au/wetlands/ecology/statistics/wetland-habitat/water-resource-planning-area.html

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