Ramsar COP7 DOC. 20.1 Table 5
07/03/1999
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"People and Wetlands: The Vital Link"
7th Meeting of the Conference of the Contracting Parties
to the Convention on Wetlands (Ramsar, Iran, 1971),
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 5. Possible priority 'downstream' Ramsar sites
| country | Ramsar site | area (ha) | within 10km of an international border? | river basin name | number of countries sharing basin |
| BWA | Okavango Delta System | 6864000 | Zambezi | 8 | |
| BOL | Lago Titicaca (Sector Boliviano) | 800000 | Titicaca | 3 | |
| ROM | Danube Delta | 647000 | yes | Danube | 17 |
| BGD | The Sundarbans | 596000 | yes | 0 | |
| PER | Lago Titicaca (Peruvian sector) | 460000 | Titicaca | 3 | |
| URY | Bañados del Este y Franja Costera | 435000 | yes | 0 | |
| IRN | Shadegan Marshes & mudflats of Khor-al Amaya & Khor Musa | 400000 | yes | 0 | |
| MEX | Humedales del Delta del Rio Colorado | 250000 | Colorado | 2 | |
| BFA | Parc National du W | 235000 | yes | Niger | 10 |
| NER | Parc National du W | 220000 | yes | Niger | 10 |
| RUS | Pskovsko-Chudskaya Lowland | 93600 | yes | Narva | 2 |
| IRN | Hamun-e-Saberi & Hamun-e-Helmand | 50000 | yes | 0 | |
| GNB | Lagoa de Cufada | 39098 | Corubal | 2 | |
| NLD | Oosterschelde & Markiezaatmeer | 38000 | yes | Schelde | 3 |
| EST | Emajõe Suursoo Mire and Piirissaar Island | 32600 | yes | Narva | 2 |
| DEU | Unterer Niederrhein | 25000 | yes | Rhine | 6 |
| GMB | Baobolon Wetland Reserve | 20000 | Gambia | 3 | |
| SEN | Djoudj | 16000 | yes | Senegal | 4 |
| MRT | Parc National du Diawling | 15600 | Senegal | 4 | |
| CAN | Lac Saint-Pierre | 11952 | St. Lawrence | 2 | |
| GRC | Axios, Loudias, Aliakmon delta | 11808 | Vardar | 2 | |
| DEU | Niederelbe, Barnkrug - Otterndorf | 11760 | Elbe | 4 | |
| IRN | Hamun-e-Puzak, south end | 10000 | yes | Helmand | 3 |
| GRC | Evros delta | 9267 | yes | Maritsa | 3 |
| DEU | Elbauen, Schnackenburg - Lauenburg | 7560 | Elbe | 4 | |
| DEU | Niederung der Untere Havel/Gülper See | 5792 | Elbe | 4 | |
| NLD | De Biesbosch (southern part) | 1700 | Meuse | 4 | |
| DEU | Mühlenberger Loch | 675 | Elbe | 4 | |
| RUS | Khingano-Arkharinskaya Lowland | yes | Amur | 3 | |
| Note. This is an indicative list of sites inside one country that have the greater part of the catchment basin in which they occur 'upstream' and within one or more other countries, and which may be considered priorities for international cooperation. A small number of these (e.g., Lake Titicaca, PN du W, Danube Delta) are also transboundary Ramsar areas (see Table 2). Sites are listed in order of decreasing size. | |||||
