• Mesa
  • Litang 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.

Litang County, which belongs to Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Sichuan Province, is located in the west of Sichuan Province and southwest of Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, 285km away from Kangding, 654km away from the provincial capital Chengdu, 99 °19mm longitude 100 °56km east longitude, 28 °57km Latitude 30 °43km north latitude, and 4014.187 meters above sea level where the county government is located. In 2011, Litang County has a total area of 14352 square kilometers and has jurisdiction over 5 districts, 24 townships, 231 villages and 282 village groups. by the end of 2011, Litang County had a resident population of 70420, with a natural population growth rate of 7.63 ‰. There are 9 ethnic groups: Tibetan, Han, Mongolian, Hui, Naxi, Tujia, Yi, Miao and Qiang, Litang, Tibetan, Tibetan Pinyin: Litan
Travel Notes In Litang County
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