• Mesa
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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.

Wufeng Tujia Autonomous County, which belongs to Yichang City, Hubei Province, is located in the southwest of Hubei Province, near the mainstream of the Yangtze River and Hunan Province. It borders Yidu and Songzi City in the east, Shimen County in Hunan Province in the south, Hefeng County and Badong County in the west, Changyang Tujia Autonomous County in the north, 60 kilometers away from the Yangtze River Waterway Port, Zhicheng Railway Station, Yihuang Expressway, Shanghai-Rong Expressway, 318 National Highway, three Gorges Airport 80 kilometers, and 325 Provincial Highway runs through the county. Dominated by karst landforms, with an average elevation of 1100 meters above sea level, it is a minority mountain county. Wufeng County covers an area of 2372 square kilometers, including 288000 mu of arable land. It has jurisdiction over 5 towns and 3 townships, 97 administrative villages and 11 community neighborhood committees. The territory has various species, rich in natural resources such as forest, hydropower, mineral and tourism, and the forest coverage rate is as high as 81%.
Airport In Wufeng Tujia Autonomous County - Yichang Three Gorges Airport
Yichang Sanxia Airport (Yichang Sanxia Airport, IATA: YIH, ICAO: ZHYC) is located at the junction of Yiting District, Yiling District and Zhijiang City, Yichang City, Hubei Province, China, 26 kilometers away from the city center and 55 kilometers away from the Three Gorges Dam   , is a 4D-level international tourist feeder airport, an important supporting project of the Three Gorges Project, and an international hub airport in the Three Gorges region   .
Yichang Three Gorges Airport was approved by the State Council and the Central Military Commission on January 18, 1993.   ;The construction officially started in September 1994, and passed the national completion inspection in October 1996. On December 28, 1996, it obtained the airport use permit and officially opened to air.   ; On June 23, 2022, the airport T2 terminal will be opened   .
According to the official website of the airport in February 2022, the terminal area of ​​Yichang Three Gorges Airport is 14,816 square meters, the area of ​​the air cargo terminal is 96 square meters, and the civil aviation station has 21 aircraft seats; the runway is 3,200 meters long and 45 meters wide   .  
In 2018, Yichang Three Gorges Airport handled a total of 2,948,700 passengers, 24,800 aircraft movements, and 16,900 tons of cargo and mail, a year-on-year increase of 31.41%, 27.17%, and 25.42% respectively.  
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