• Mesa
  • Liuba 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.

Liuba County is located in the southwest of Shaanxi Province, north of Hanzhong City. Located in the southern foot of the Qinling Mountains, the upper reaches of the Han River, "face Ba Shu and back Qinchuan", is a subtropical humid monsoon climate zone, no heat in summer and no severe cold in winter. The geological and geomorphological features are unique, with a long history, rich resources and convenient transportation, which has been known as the "throat of the Qin and Han dynasties". It is 46.4 km long from east to west and 67.2 km wide from north to south. The county seat is 367km away from Xi'an and 85 km away from Hanzhong, with 2.725 million mu of forestry land and 89000 mu of agricultural land, which is one of the forestry counties in Shaanxi Province. On September 25, 2018, he won the honorary title of "2018 e-commerce into rural comprehensive demonstration county" of the Ministry of Commerce. On May 7, 2019, the people's Government of Shaanxi Province approved Liuba County to withdraw from the poverty-stricken county sequence.
Travel Notes In Liuba County