• Mesa
  • Huangyuan 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.

Huangyuan County is located in the west of Xining City. Chengguan Town, the county seat, is 52 kilometers away from the provincial capital Xining. The total area is 1509 square kilometers. The total population is 135004 (end of 2009). Mainly Han nationality, as well as Hui, Tibet, Mongolia, Tu and so on. Huangyuan County originally had jurisdiction over 2 towns, 6 townships and 1 ethnic township: Chengguan Town, Dahua Town, Dongxia Township, Riyue Tibetan Township, Heping Township, Bohang Township, Shenzhong Township, Bayan Township, Sizhai Township. The county people's government is stationed in chengguan town. On September 25, 2018, he won the honorary title of "2018 e-commerce into rural comprehensive demonstration county" of the Ministry of Commerce. In October 2018, it won the national leading area for the integration and development of the primary, secondary and tertiary industries in rural areas. On December 29, 2018, the sixth national unity and progress demonstration zone was named by the State ethnic Affairs Commission.
Travel Notes In Huangyuan County