Llano Estacado The article on the land formation called the Llano Estacado in West Texas and Eastern New Mexico says that it is a mesa It covers about 37 500 sq miles making it vastly larger than the Grand Mesa in Colorado Why is the Grand Mesa considered the largest mesa Should this be changed or is there some technical reason that the Llano Estacado is not counted Llano Estacado Staked Plains contains mesas but I ve never thought of it as one huge mesa On an aside the name comes from the fact that they had to drive stakes into the ground to mark their routes since the landscape was so featureless and windy Maybe you should read the article There are no mesas on the Llano Estacado It IS a mesa The article also says that the explanation you gave for the name is a myth I had never read the Llano Estacado article Interesting information regarding staked plains Nevertheless the threshold for inclusion on Wikipedia is not fact but verifiability Regarding there being no mesas on the Llano the State of New Mexico among others disagree See this for example The article has a reference that says the Llano Estacado is a mesa It also says it covers 37 500 sq miles How much more verification is required BTW the mesas on the Llano are on the extreme northwest corner were it approaches the Rockies I suppose that still qualifies as on the Caprock I didn t know they were there because I m from Lubbock Preceding unsigned comment added by I wasn t disagreeing with the notion that the Llano is a mesa or saying that more citations are needed I was just pointing out that even though the Llano is a mesa it also has mesas I love Lubbock by the way both my wife and son were born there and we try to get back at least yearly to catch a Tech game