Created from the NLC2000 dataset and the national Wetland Probability Map to create the first National Wetland Map (NWM1) Beta version

Peatlands mapped as having turned desiccated or have burnt

Artificial wetlands of the South African Inventory of Inland Aquatic Ecosystems (SAIIAE). This data set is part of the Inventory released with the launch of the NBA 2018. National Wetland Map 5 includes inland wetlands and estuaries, but are associated with river line data and many other data sets within the South African Inventory of Inland Aquatic Ecosystems (SAIIAE). Please ensure you obtain the full geodatabase and relevant reports to understand the appropriate use of the data. Appropriate use and a disclaimer is provided under the relevant reports below.

The most recent dams register of DWS, dated to 2016

Oxbow lakes from the DRDLR:NGI data issued in May 2016 for the purpose of indicating floodplain wetlands. These oxbow lakes are in some instances indicative of the floodplain depressions, however some artificial systems were also mapped as Lakes by DRDLR:NGI. The polygon features called 'Lakes' were extracted and converted to points. The data was used by data capturers to guide them in the typing of hydrogeomorphic units, and can also be used when modelling HGM units. Please see Van Deventer et al. (2018) for more information.

This data set is part of the National Wetland Map 2 (NWM2). Data from the National Wetlands Map 1 was combined with the 1:50 000 Farm dams features (DWAF 2004) to produce NWM2. National Wetland Map 2 that was divided into three GIS layers: wetland, natural waterbody and artificial waterbody.

Artificial wetlands of the South African Inventory of Inland Aquatic Ecosystems (SAIIAE). This data set is part of the Inventory released with the launch of the NBA 2018. National Wetland Map 5 includes inland wetlands and estuaries, but are associated with river line data and many other data sets within the South African Inventory of Inland Aquatic Ecosystems (SAIIAE). Please ensure you obtain the full geodatabase and relevant reports to understand the appropriate use of the data. Appropriate use and a disclaimer is provided under the relevant reports below.

The spatial representation of the regional setting at Level 2 of the Classification System for Wetlands and other Aquatic Ecosystems in South Africa.

The 2018 South African Inventory of Inland Aquatic Ecosystems (SAIIAE) geodatabase is a collection of data layers pertaining to ecosystem types and pressures for both rivers and inland wetlands. These data layers were developed and used for the 2018 National Biodiversity Assessment (NBA 2018).

A sub-version of the National Wetland Map 5. National Geo-spatial Information (NGI) data from 2006 and 2016 was unioned into a single feature class. This was further unioined with the Estuaries Functional Zone, Working for Wetlands data, peatlands data, and the 1 m buffers of the NGI spring points (referred to as the ADD1 feature class). This layer was further split into provincial data sets for attending to slivers, checking names and assigning HGM units to a polygon. This layer should not be used as the final National Wetland Map 5. For the final National wetland map 5 please refer to the layer National Biodiversity Assessment 2018 Artificial Wetlands AEA.