The Upper Burdekin Basin is the largest in the Burdekin Dry Tropics NRM region. It comprises over 40,000 square kilometres.
The land is mostly used for grazing with just over ten per cent used for conservation purposes. There are many abandoned and operational mines in this basin.
Waterways vary between largely sandy, dry short-lived creek systems to permanently flowing clear-water rivers and creeks that originate in mountain rainforest.
