• Mesa
  • Hefeng 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.

Hefeng County belongs to Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture. It is located in the southwest of Hubei Province, southeast of Enshi Prefecture, adjacent to Hunan Province. It is located between 109 °45'E and 110 °38'E and 29 °38'N to 30 °14'N. Known as Tuoxi, Rongmi and Rongyang in ancient times, it was once a place of Rongmei. In 1735, it was successively set up as Hefeng Prefecture and Hefeng County. The county is 85 kilometers long from east to west and 67 kilometers wide from north to south, with a total area of 2892 square kilometers and a population of 270000 (2016). Jurisdiction over 6 townships, 3 towns, the government resident Rongmei town. Hefeng is one of the birthplaces of Ba culture and the center of the revolutionary base areas on the border of Hunan and Hubei during the second Revolutionary Civil War. It has been designated as a national first-class old base county, a national key county for poverty alleviation and development, and has a national cemetery for martyrs.
Airport In Hefeng 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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