• Mesa
  • Baiyu 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.

Baiyu County, which belongs to Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Sichuan Province, is located in the transitional zone from Qinghai-Tibet Plateau to Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau. It belongs to the northern section of the Hengduan Mountains and the east bank of the upper reaches of the Jinsha River. It is located between 98 degrees 36 minutes east longitude to 99 degrees 56 minutes and 30 degrees 22 minutes to 31 degrees 40 minutes north latitude. It is bordered by Xinlong County to the east, Batang and Litang counties to the south, Gongjue and Jiangda counties in Tibet to the west, and Ganzi County and Dege County to the north. By the end of 2011, Baiyu County had an area of 10591 square kilometers and had jurisdiction over 1 town and 16 townships with a total population of 53600, a birth rate of 8.64 ‰ and a natural population growth rate of 6.67 ‰. In 2011, Baiyu County achieved a GDP of 869 million yuan, an increase of 9.7% over 2010.
Travel Notes In Baiyu County
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