• Mesa
  • Konggar 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.

Gongga County is under the jurisdiction of Shannan City, Tibet Autonomous region of the people's Republic of China, which is located in the south of Tibet Autonomous region and in the valley of the middle reaches of the Brahmaputra River. As of 2013, Gongga County has jurisdiction over 5 towns, 3 townships, 43 administrative villages (communities) and 168 villages. Gongga County has a total area of 2386.11 square kilometers and a total population of 50, 000. County people's government in Jixiong town. The terrain of Gongga County is high in the west and low in the east, which belongs to the arid monsoon climate zone of the plateau. Gongga County has a long history of handmade wool spinning, and "Jade Show apron" is famous both at home and abroad. Gongga County is the location of Gongga International Airport in Lhasa and is a famous aviation county in Tibet. On February 6, 2019, the people's Government of the Tibet Autonomous region decided to withdraw Gongga County from the poverty-stricken county.
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