• Mesa
  • Mazhang District

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.

Mazhang District, located on the Leizhou Peninsula in the southwest of Guangdong Province, was formerly a suburb of Zhanjiang City, a municipal district under the jurisdiction of Zhanjiang City, Guangdong Province, bordering the South China Sea. The registered population of the district is 273700 (2010), and it has jurisdiction over three towns: Mazhang, Huguang and Taiping. Mazhang District has convenient transportation, which is not only the transportation hub of Zhanjiang City from the east to the west, but also the traffic throat of western Guangdong connecting Hainan and the provinces and cities in the southwest. The Li-Zhan Railway, the Yue-Hai Railway and the Luozhan Railway under construction run through the whole territory, including Zhanjiang Railway West Station and Zhanjiang Freight Station. Guang-Zhan Expressway, Yu-Zhan Expressway and the Zhan-Xu Expressway under construction are at the interchange exit in Mazhang Industrial Zone, and National Highway 325 runs through Mazhang City. In Mazhang District, there are 15 high and secondary universities, including Guangdong Ocean University, and 8 countries, including the crop Research Institute of the South subtropics.
Airport In Mazhang District - Zhanjiang Wuchuan Airport
Zhanjiang Wuchuan Airport (Zhanjiang Wuchuan Airport, IATA: ZHA, ICAO: ZGZJ), located in Heshan Village, Tanghe Town, Wuchuan City, Zhanjiang City, Guangdong Province, China, about 35 kilometers southwest from the center of Zhanjiang, is a 4E-level trunk airport, open to the outside world It is a first-class air port, which is the relocated airport of Zhanjiang Airport   .
On October 19, 2019, the relocation project of Zhanjiang Airport officially started   ; On November 25, 2020, Zhanjiang's relocated airport was officially named "Zhanjiang Wuchuan Airport"   ; On October 21, 2021, the test flight of Zhanjiang Wuchuan Airport was successful   ; On March 24, 2022, Zhanjiang Wuchuan Airport was officially opened and Zhanjiang Airport was officially closed   .
The terminal building of Zhanjiang Wuchuan Airport covers an area of ​​61,800 square meters, with 19 boarding bridges; the civil aviation station has 30 aircraft seats, including 2 E-class seats and 28 C-class seats; the runway is 3,200 meters long, 45 meters wide; it can meet the requirements of annual passenger throughput of 5.1 million person-times, cargo and mail throughput of 30,600 tons, and aircraft take-off and landing of 47,400 sorties   .
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