DRIVE south from Rondonopolis, and for mile after mile the flat tableland stretches away to the far horizon, a limitless green prairie carpeted with swelling crops.
Brazil grows a lot of it, often efficiently: in the fertile tableland of Sao Paulo state, production costs are as low as $220 per tonne.
The relief is mostly gently rolling tableland drained by the Ebro and its tributaries.
Northeast of the plateau is a tableland, the highest elevations reaching 1,300 to 1,500 feet (400 to 460 metres).
West and southwest of the tableland the terrain gradually rises toward the Togo Mountains, also known as the Togo-Atakora Mountains, which run across central Togo from the south-southwest to the north-northeast.
It is located on the tableland of Cova da Iria, 18 miles (29 km) southeast of Leiria.
Isolated ranges of low elevation break the surface in places, but, in general, the undulating tableland slopes toward the Paraná River, the state's western boundary.
The northeast is coterminous with the Khorat Plateau, a vast tableland bounded by the Mekong River on the north and east.
Occupying a high tableland area of 81 square miles (210 square km), it contains hundreds of pueblo (Indian village) ruins up to 13 centuries old.
It is primarily an agricultural tableland, 2,500 feet (762 metres) above sea level.
In the mountainous northern tableland near Berga, lignite is mined, and cement, of which the province is one of Spain's leading producers, is manufactured.
