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Recent Examples of mesasWithin minutes, guests can be standing beneath the stone arches of Arches National Park, 4 miles away, or surveying mesas and buttes in Canyonlands National Park, 30 miles southwest, where the Colorado and Green rivers have carved the landscape for centuries.—Cari Shane, USA Today, 15 Oct. 2025 Instead, tribal members have relied on a single power line that runs roughly 30 miles east and west across high desert punctuated by three distinctive mesas, home to 12 distinct villages, including some of the oldest inhabited communities in the United States.—Nate Perez, NPR, 7 Oct. 2025 Some via ferratas cling to red rock mesas in the middle of the desert; others hug ledges overlooking alpine forests.—AFAR Media, 30 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mesas
highlands
Noun
Lake Nyos, an extremely deep lake in the volcanic highlands of northwest Cameroon, was in the second category.
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22 Oct. 2025
With establishing shots of the majestic Armenian highlands, the documentary makes a concerted effort to trace the deep-rooted mythos of this ancestral land before delving into its subjects.
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