• Mesa
  • Hongta 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.

Hongta District is located in the hinterland of central Yunnan, located in latitude 24 °08: 30 "- 24 °32" N, longitude 102 °17 °32 "- 102 °41 °37 in the east, Tonghai County in the southeast, Eshan Yi Autonomous County in the southwest, and Jinning District in Kunming City in the north. It is 86 kilometers away from the provincial capital Kunming, with convenient transportation. National Highway 213 and the Kunyu Railway, which is connected with the whole country in 1993, run through the north and south, forming the north-south transportation hub of Yunnan Province. Historically, Hongta District of Yuxi City is known as the "provincial capital Pingfan", which is an important passage to southern Yunnan and neighboring countries in Southeast Asia. On December 14, 2017, it was awarded as one of China's top 100 industrial districts. On February 2, 2019, it was evaluated by the State Administration of traditional Chinese Medicine.
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