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Ramsar COP7 DOC. 20.1 Table 8

07/03/1999

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7^th Meeting of the Conference of the Contracting Parties
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San José, Costa Rica, 10-18 May 1999

Ramsar COP7 DOC. 20.1

Technical Session V:
The framework for regional and international cooperation regarding wetlands
Paper 1

Shared Wetlands and River Basins of the World

Table 8. Area of peatland and mangrove in international catchment basins

peatland				mangrove
shared river basin	number of countries	area (km sq)	includes Ramsar site?	shared river basin	number of countries	area (km sq)	includes Ramsar site?
Ob	3	368,185	yes	Ganges-Brahmaputra	5	5,541	yes
Saskatchewan-Nelson	2	147,407		Orinoco	2	1,533
Amur	3	108,635	yes	Kapuas	2	1,052
Kemijoki	3	29,196	yes	Niger	10	677
Yenisey	2	23,150		Fly	2	629	yes
Ganges-Brahmaputra	5	19,040	yes	Indus	4	544
Oulu	2	17,244		Volta	6	276	yes
Dnieper	3	14,400	yes	Barima	2	274
Zaire	9	12,315	yes	Sepik	2	201
Mississippi	2	10,908		Gambia	3	197
Kapuas	2	8,505	yes	Mekong	6	196
Syr Darya	4	6,517		Cross	2	119
St. Lawrence	2	5,490		Saigon	2	113
Ili	2	4,781		St John	2	96
Oder	3	3,605	yes	Cavally	3	80
Fly	2	3,522	yes	Sassandra	2	71
Orinoco	2	3,433		Maroni	2	64	yes
Terek	2	2,934		Coco (Segovia)	2	59
Tornio	2	2,834		Si	2	58
Barima	2	2,630		Oyapock	2	56
Zambezi	8	2,544		Lofa	2	48
Vistula	4	1,952	yes	Senegal	4	48	yes
Danube	17	1,448	yes	Cestos	3	42
W. Dvina	3	1,049	yes	Moa	3	35
Olanga	2	976		Sembakung	2	32
Elbe	4	891	yes	Zarumilla	2	29	yes
Rhine	6	854	yes	Komoe	2	27
Neman	4	621	yes	Sanaga	2	22
Sembakung	2	576		Amazon	7	17
Maroni	2	550	yes	Maputo	3	16
Amu Darya	5	266		Great Scarcies	2	16
Yalu Jiang	2	245		Ruvuma	3	13
Narva	2	229		Tumbes	2	12
Sepik	2	222		Mono	2	11
Ural	2	196		Zambezi	8	9
Amazon	7	130		Dasht	2	8
Coco (Segovia)	2	38		Ogooue	4	7
Essequibo	2	34		Baraka	2	7
Meuse	4	6		Zaire	9	6
				Save	2	6
				Usumacinta	2	6	yes
				Little Scarcies	2	4
				Mano-Morro	2	3
				Patia	2	3

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