World Heritage Listing
World Heritage Wet Tropic Listing was given to the river in recognition of "its outstanding natural universal value as an outstanding example representing; the major stages of Earths evolutionary history, significant ongoing ecological and biological processes, superlative natural phenomena and as containing important and significant habitats for in situ conservation of biological diversity. The river is part of the much larger Daintree Rainforest, region in Northern Queensland encompassing 894,000 hectres.
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