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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.

Weixi Lisu Autonomous County is one of the counties under the jurisdiction of Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province, which is located in the northwest of Yunnan Province. Since the Eastern Han Dynasty and Tang Dynasty, this place has been an integral part of southwest China. The fortress of northwest Yunnan is one of the post transportation channels leading to India, Burma, Kangzang and Tibet, and it is also the meeting point of the "tea-horse exchange market" in ancient northwest Yunnan. As of 2014, Weixi County has jurisdiction over 3 towns and 7 townships, a total of 3 communities and 79 villages. At the end of 2012, the total population of Weixi Lisu Autonomous County was 154127, of which the agricultural population was 137717, accounting for 89.35% of the total population. In 2012, the total output value of Weixi Lisu Autonomous County reached 2.65673 billion yuan, and the proportion of the added value of primary, secondary and tertiary industries was 14.79, 32.93, 5.
Travel Notes In Weixi
Preliminary Exploration of the Secret Area in Northwest Yunnan
Because of work, I went to the company's most remote project with interesting colleagues in early May, so I had this unusual experience. In the past p
Why in Diqing, Yunnan, there is a saying that in the year of the sheep, the Meili Snow Mountain will be transferred, and in the year of the monkey, it will be transferred to the Bodhidharma Patriarch Cave?
Looking west from Qizong Xiangbi Mountain in Weixi County, Diqing Prefecture, there is a mountain that looks like a huge Buddha sitting between the sk
Weixi Tourism——Ask the Great God to Identify the Unknown Plants Discovered in Weixi Anjiluo
During the small holiday of the Dragon Boat Festival in 2018, I went to Nanjiluo (also known as Nanjieluo by the locals) in Badi Township, Weixi Count
【Looking for Yunnan】Walking Baby in the South of Colorful Clouds (Lijiang, Shuhe, Dali, Weixi)
South of Caiyun, a place where you want to go just by hearing the name. Finally, when our "talented" little classmate turned three years old and could
Travel Asks In Weixi
Travel Asks In Weixi