• Mesa
  • Badong County

A mesa is an isolated, flat-topped elevation, ridge or hill, which is bounded from all sides by steep escarpments and stands distinctly above a surrounding plain. Mesas characteristically consist of flat-lying soft sedimentary rocks capped by a more resistant layer or layers of harder rock, e.g. shales overlain by sandstones. The resistant layer acts as a caprock that forms the flat summit of a mesa. The caprock can consist of either sedimentary rocks such as sandstone and limestone; dissected lava flows; or a deeply eroded duricrust. Unlike plateau, whose usage does not imply horizontal layers of bedrock, e.g. Tibetan Plateau, the term mesa applies exclusively to the landforms built of flat-lying strata. Instead, flat-topped plateaus are specifically known as tablelands.

Badong County, a county under the jurisdiction of Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, is located in the southwest of Hubei Province, on both sides of the middle and upper reaches of the Yangtze River, and in the northeast of Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture. It connects Xingshan, Zigui and Changyang to the east, Wufeng and Hefeng to the south, Jiaoshi to the west, Chongqing and Wushan to the north, and Shennongjia forest to the north. The terrain is long and narrow, high in the west and low in the east, undulating in the north and south, warm and rainy, humid and foggy, with four distinct seasons. The territory has a total area of 3351.6 square kilometers and has jurisdiction over 12 townships and 322 village (neighborhood) committees; the total registered population is 488000 in 2018. There are a large number of Paleolithic, Neolithic and various historical periods of ancient cultural sites, ancient tombs and ancient plank roads in Badong. Such as: flaming stone paleolithic cultural sites, the Yangtze River ancient plank road, Xizangpo ancient tombs, Dongzangkou Fuma tomb, salt
Airport In Badong County - Enshi Xujiaping Airport
Enshi Xujiaping Airport (Enshi Xujiaping Airport, IATA: ENH; ICAO: ZHES), located at No. 38, Xujiaping Road, Enshi City, Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Hubei Province, China, 3 kilometers from Enshi Railway Station in the north and 3.5 kilometers from the downtown area of ​​Enshi in the south m, for 4C international feeder airports   .
On November 28, 1993, Enshi Xujiaping Airport was officially opened for navigation. On April 18, 2019, the air port of Enshi Xujiaping Airport was approved to temporarily open to the public.   .
According to the information on the airport's official website in March 2020, Enshi Xujiaping Airport has two terminals, of which the T1 (international) terminal covers an area of ​​5,319 square meters, and the T2 (domestic) terminal covers an area of ​​10,000 square meters; C-class seats, 3 of which are remote seats; the runway is 2,600 meters long and 45 meters wide, which can meet the annual passenger throughput of 1.6 million passengers   .
In 2019, Enshi Xujiaping Airport completed a total of 1.42692 million passenger throughput, a year-on-year increase of 37.3%, ranking 90th in the country; cargo and mail throughput was 1,629.8 tons, a year-on-year decrease of 4.4%, ranking 106th in the country; 12,987 aircraft movements, Year-on-year growth of 37.7%, ranking 119th in the country   .
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