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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.

Zhenyuan Yi Hani Lahu Autonomous County is one of the counties under the jurisdiction of Pu'er City, Yunnan Province. The county is located in the southwest of Yunnan Province, between Ailao Mountain and Wuliang Mountain. Enle Town, Zhenyuan County, is 447 kilometers away from Kunming, the provincial capital. Zhenyuan County has a total area of 4136.81 square kilometers. As of 2013, Zhenyuan County has jurisdiction over 4 towns and 5 townships. In 2010, the total population of Zhenyuan County was 208606, and the population of ethnic minorities was 111969, accounting for 53.67% of the total population. In 2013, Zhenyuan County achieved a total economic output of 3.41 billion yuan, with a tertiary industrial structure of 46.7, 24.5 and 28.8. It won the title of "National Garden County" in 2017. On April 30, 2019, the people's Government of Yunnan Province decided on Zhenyuan Yi, Hani and Lahu Autonomous County.
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