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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.

Chengmai County is located in the northwest of Hainan Island, the county around the Beibu Gulf Urban agglomeration, adjacent to Haikou, the provincial capital. It has been bought for more than two thousand years since the first year of Yuan Feng of the Western Han Dynasty (110 BC). It is one of the three famous historical cities of Hainan during the Western Han Dynasty (that is, hawksbill turtle, purple shellfish and chicory). The county has a population of about 590000 people, with a land area of 2076 square kilometers and a sea area of 1100 square kilometers. Haiyu Central, West Route, West Ring Island Expressway, Middle Route Expressway, Round City Expressway, Yue-Hai Railway and West Ring High-speed Rail all pass through the territory. Chengmai County has successively won more than 60 national honors, such as "hometown of Longevity in the World", "famous Green County in China", "Best Leisure Tourism County in China", "demonstration County in the Construction of Beautiful villages in China", and "Ten famous Tourism Counties with Cultural characteristics". March 2017, finalists for "2017"
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