• Mesa
  • Lüchun 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.

Luchun County is under the jurisdiction of Honghe Prefecture. Formerly known as "six villages", when the county was founded in 1958, Zhou Enlai personally named it Lvchun according to the characteristics of "green mountains and green waters, like spring all the year round". Luchun County is located in the south of Yunnan Province, in the southwest of Honghe Prefecture, bordering Yuanyang and Jinping counties in the east, Honghe County in the north, Mojiang County in the northwest, Lixianjiang County and Jiangcheng County in the southwest, and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam in the southeast. It is 312 kilometers away from the estuary border port and 132 kilometers away from the Jinshui River port. The provincial highway S214 passes through the county seat. By the end of 2012, Luchun County covers an area of 3096 square kilometers and has jurisdiction over one town and eight townships; the registered population is 233249, and the population of ethnic minorities is 230161, accounting for 98.7% of the registered population.
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