diff --git a/in/parameters.json b/in/parameters.json
index 8206839..9085ee5 100644
--- a/in/parameters.json
+++ b/in/parameters.json
@@ -1,103 +1,11 @@
 {
-    "make_geometry": {
-        "xh": [1.000000, 1.526316, 2.052632, 2.578947, 3.105263, 3.631579, 4.157895, 4.684211, 5.210526, 5.736842, 6.263158, 6.789474, 7.315789, 7.842105, 8.368421, 8.894737, 9.421053, 9.947368, 10.473684, 11.000000],
-        "yh": [2, 2.31578947368421, 2.63157894736842, 2.94736842105263, 3.26315789473684, 3.57894736842105, 3.89473684210526, 4.21052631578947, 4.52631578947368, 4.84210526315789, 5.15789473684211, 5.47368421052632, 5.78947368421053, 6.10526315789474, 6.42105263157895, 6.73684210526316, 7.05263157894737, 7.36842105263158, 7.68421052631579, 8],
-        "zh": [8, 7.93799037087873, 7.85250472327737, 7.7258147867945, 7.55028053799672, 7.33022074461027, 7.08085558055934, 6.82458019656734, 6.58548160620157, 6.38344134488803, 6.22926777664632, 6.12204982962276, 6.04938005825495, 5.9903924186702, 5.92087100395428, 5.81917894272337, 5.67155585985099, 5.47548689620891, 5.24031843389046, 4.98496977590764],
-        "bh": [1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1],
-        "tot.area": 12,
-        "dyy": 2,
-        "xsi": [0, 0.05, 0.1, 0.15, 0.2, 0.25, 0.3, 0.35, 0.4, 0.45, 0.5, 0.55, 0.6, 0.65, 0.7, 0.75, 0.8, 0.85, 0.9, 0.95, 1],
-        "eta": [0, 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.6, 0.7, 0.8, 0.9, 1],
-        "htyp": 1
-    },
-    "write_facmat": {
-        "geometry": "./in/make_geometry_out/geom.Rds",
-        "write_soilhyd_ini": true,
-        "write_soil_types": true,
-        "fac": "./in/fac.dat"
-    },
-    "write_precip": {
-        "raindat": "./in/raindat.csv",
-        "start.time": "01.01.2004 00:00:00",
-        "time.unit": "h",
-        "faktor.p": 1
-    },
-    "write_climate": {
-        "climadat": "./in/climadat.csv",
-        "start.time": "01.01.2004 00:00:00",
-        "time.unit": "h",
-        "rBilart": 1,
-        "ref.height": 8,
-        "sw0": -6,
-        "sw1": 0.7,
-        "sw2": 2.8e-4,
-        "trueb": 1.5,
-        "truebf": 0.1,
-        "NA.flag": -999
-    },
-    "write_printout": {
-        "start.time": "01.01.2004 00:00:00",
-        "end.time": "03.01.2004 00:00:00",
-        "intervall": 0.5,
-        "time.unit": "h",
-        "flag": 1
-    },
-    "write_surface_pob": {
-        "geometry": "./in/make_geometry_out/geom.Rds",
-        "lu": 33,
-        "precid": 1,
-        "climid": 1,
-        "windid": [1, 1, 1, 1]
-    },
-    "write_control": {
-        "start.date": "01.01.2004 00:00:00.00",
-        "end.date": "03.01.2004 00:00:00",
-        "geo.file": "geometry.geo"
-    },
-    "complete_file_structure": {
-    },
-    "make_geometry_representative_hillslope": {
-        "flow_accumulation": "./in/geoprocessing/flow_accumulation.tif",
-        "basin": "./in/geoprocessing/basin.tif",
-        "elevation2river": "./in/geoprocessing/elev2riv.tif",
-        "distance2river": "./in/geoprocessing/dist2riv.tif",
-        "dem": "./in/geoprocessing/dem.tif",
-        "aspect": "./in/geoprocessing/aspect.tif",
-        "river_id": "./in/geoprocessing/river_id.tif"
-    },
-    "preprocess_catflow": {
-        "flow_accumulation": "./in/geoprocessing/flow_accumulation.tif",
-        "basin": "./in/geoprocessing/basin.tif",
-        "elevation2river": "./in/geoprocessing/elev2riv.tif",
-        "distance2river": "./in/geoprocessing/dist2riv.tif",
-        "dem": "./in/geoprocessing/dem.tif",
-        "aspect": "./in/geoprocessing/aspect.tif",
-        "river_id": "./in/geoprocessing/river_id.tif",
-        "raindat": "./in/raindat.csv",
-        "start.time": "01.01.2004 00:00:00",
-        "time.unit": "h",
-        "faktor.p": 1,
-        "climadat": "./in/climadat.csv",
-        "rBilart": 1,
-        "ref.height": 8,
-        "sw0": -6,
-        "sw1": 0.7,
-        "sw2": 2.8e-4,
-        "trueb": 1.5,
-        "truebf": 0.1,
-        "NA.flag": -999,
-        "end.time": "03.01.2004 00:00:00",
-        "intervall": 0.5,
-        "flag": 1,
-        "lu": 33,
-        "precid": 1,
-        "climid": 1,
-        "windid": [1, 1, 1, 1]
-    },
-    "timeseries_to_catflow_precip": {
-        "raindat": "./in/raindat.csv",
-        "start.time": "01.01.2004 00:00:00",
-        "time.unit": "h",
-        "faktor.p": 1
-    } 
+    "make_representative_hillslope": {
+        "parameters":{ 
+            "hillslope_id" : -1,
+            "no_flow_area" : 0.30,
+            "min_cells:" : 10,
+            "hill_type" : 'constant',
+            "depth:" : 2.1
+        }  
+    }
 }
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/catlib.R b/src/catlib.R
index b364e1c..2a5f98b 100644
--- a/src/catlib.R
+++ b/src/catlib.R
@@ -76,6 +76,15 @@ make_geometry_representative_hillslope <- function(params,data_paths) {
     # assign homogenous width to hill object
     hill$short_rep_hill$short_width_corr <- rep(c(w), length(hill$short_rep_hill$short_dist))    # Width
 
+    # Assign values to x based on the value of params$hill_type
+    if (params$hill_type == "constant") {
+    htyp <- 1
+    } else if (params$hill_type == "cake") {
+    htyp <- 2
+    } else if (params$hill_type == "variable") {
+    htyp <- 3
+    } 
+    
     # slope.list as input for make_geometry
     topo <- list(
         xh = hill$short_rep_hill$east,              # East
@@ -84,7 +93,7 @@ make_geometry_representative_hillslope <- function(params,data_paths) {
         bh = hill$short_rep_hill$short_width_corr,  # Width
         dist = hill$short_rep_hill$short_dist,
         tot.area = hill$area,                       # Area
-        htyp = params$hill_type,                                   # Hillslope type
+        htyp = htyp,                                   # Hillslope type
         dyy = params$depth,                                    # Thickness of profile [m] average of drillings 2.1 m
         xsi = seq(0, 1, length = max(hill$short_rep_hill$short_dist) + 1),  # in order to get every 1m a node length of hillslope + 1             # discretitation
         eta =  c(seq(0,0.625,length=6),seq(0.7,0.85, length=3),seq(0.875,1, length=6)),       # eta starts at the bottom, upper 50 cm, dx=10cm, 50-400cm dx=25 cm