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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.

Jinping Miao Yao and Dai Autonomous County is an autonomous county under the jurisdiction of Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture in Yunnan Province of the people's Republic of China, located in the south of Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture. It is bordered by Luchun County in the west, Yuanyang County in the north, Gejiu City and Mengzi City in the north, Red River in the east and Hekou Yao Autonomous County in the east, and Laojie Province and Laizhou Province in the south. The county seat is 7.5 kilometers away from the border. It has three border mutual market points: the first-class port of Jinshui River and the hot pool of Shili Village, the northwest of Maandi and the boundary of Jinshui River. Jinping Miao, Yao and Dai Autonomous County covers an area of 3677 square kilometers and has a population of 356200 in 2010.
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