• Mesa
  • Qilin 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.

Qilin District, which belongs to Qujing City, Yunnan Province, is the seat of Qujing Municipal Government. It is located in the eastern part of Yunnan Province, in the middle of the eastern Yunnan Plateau, in the upper reaches of Nanpanjiang River, between 103 °29 degrees east longitude and 104 °14 degrees east longitude and 26 °06 degrees north latitude. It is 137km away from the provincial capital Kunming and covers an area of 1552.84 square kilometers. In 2017, Qilin District has a registered population of 749900, with a GDP of 63.3 billion yuan, and has jurisdiction over 13 streets and 3 towns. The terrain is high from east to west and low from north to south, with mountains, river valleys and hills interlaced with each other. The urban area is 1875 meters above sea level. Guiyang-Kunming Railway, National Highway 320 and National Highway 326 are distributed radially in the territory. Qilin District has been appraised as the national sustainable development experimental area, the national ecological demonstration area and the national science popularization demonstration area.
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