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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.

Pingbian Miao Autonomous County is located in the south of Yunnan Province and southeast of Honghe Prefecture. It is 300 kilometers away from the provincial capital Kunming, 50 kilometers away from the state capital, and more than 300 kilometers from Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam. Pingbian Miao Autonomous County has a total area of 1906 square kilometers, with 154000 people in the sixth national census in 2010. In 2013, the total industrial output value of Pingbian Miao Autonomous County broke through the 1 billion yuan mark for the first time, reaching 1.076 billion yuan. Dawei Mountain primeval forest is known as "animal and plant gene bank" and "natural beauty salon". In July 2019, he won the title of "China Natural oxygen Bar" in 2019.
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