The new town of Lhatse (w=lha rtse) or Lhatse Xian, also known as Quxar, Quxia or Chusar, is a small town of a few thousand people in the Tibet Autonomous Region in the valley of the Yarlung Tsangpo River in Lhatse County, 151 kilometers southwest of Shigatse and just west of the mountain pass leading to it.