• Mesa
  • Hanjiang District

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.

Hanjiang District, which belongs to Putian City, Fujian Province, is located in the northeast of Putian City and the central coast of Fujian Province, bordering Xinghua Bay, facing the mountain and the sea, separated by water from Taiwan Province, with a total area of 752 square kilometers. It is 13 kilometers away from the urban area of Putian and 93 kilometers away from the provincial capital Fuzhou. Hanjiang is a thousand-year-old town in Futian area and one of the four major towns in Fujian. It is known as "Xiao Wu Yue in scenery and Jia Zhangquan in wealth". Since ancient times, Shang prospered the town, opened a commercial port in the early Song Dynasty, became the commercial center of Futian in the Ming Dynasty, ranked as one of the four major cities in Fujian at the end of the Qing Dynasty, and was known as "Little Shanghai" during the Anti-Japanese War. It is not only a comprehensive experimental area for reform and opening up in Fujian Province, but also a technology-intensive area for the implementation of spark in the province. In 2017, Hanjiang District has a total population of 445525. In 2018, Hanjiang District has jurisdiction over 2 streets, 9 towns and 1 township.
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