explain the importance of cuestas ? [3]
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A cuesta (from Spanish cuesta "slope") is a hill or ridge with a gentle slope on one side, ... Cuestas are the expression of extensive outcrops of gently dipping strata, typically sedimentary strata
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Cuestas are gently sloping plains bounded on one edge by an escarpment. They result when a gently dipping layer of relatively hard sedimentary rock underlain by softer strata is eroded until the latter is exposed producing a feature resembling a plateau or mesa near the scarp edge, and a gentle plain on the dip slope.
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