Lhatse
ཆུ་ཤར་ · 曲下镇 | |
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Coordinates (Quxar Town government): 29°05′18″N 87°38′16″E / 29.0884°N 87.6378°E | |
Country | People's Republic of China |
Autonomous region | Tibet |
Prefecture-level city | Shigatse |
Time zone | UTC+8 (CST) |
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The new town of Lhatse or Lhatse Xian, also known as Quxar (Tibetan: ཆུ་ཤར་, Quxia (Chinese: 曲下镇; pinyin: Qūxià Zhèn), 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 kilometres (94 mi) southwest of Shigatse and just west of the mountain pass leading to it. Lhatse is 4,050 metres (13,290 ft) above sea-level.[1] Lhatse recorded the highest temperature of 28.9 °C (84.0 °F) in locations above 4,000 meters above sea level.