Bandawe Point
bahn-DAH-weh POYNT (approx.)
The atlas records 3 collection-point forms from Bandawe Point, across 2 genera.
11.9218°S 34.1795°E
Bandawe Point is a point on Lake Malawi's Malawian shore, under 1 km south-south-east of Makuzi Beach.
Where it is
Bandawe Point is on the western shore of Lake Malawi, in its central third (169 mi south of the lake's northern tip).
Nearest collection points: Makuzi Beach 0.2 mi north · Kande Island 4.3 mi south-west · Msuli Point 9.9 mi north-east
Shore, third and distances are measured from the coordinates above against the lake’s mapped outline.
The water
Lake-wide measured chemistry of Lake Malawi — collection points share their lake's water; site-specific figures are shown only where the literature records them.
Nearest measured station: Salima (south-east shore) (~205 km) — Conductivity 235 µS/cm
Surface temperature here
Across Apr–Nov, monthly means run 75 °F to 82 °F — coolest in Jul. Measured by satellite 1995–2023: the daily median of clear readings within 10 km of the site (976 clear days). The rainy-season months are usually too cloudy to measure and are left blank.
Temperature: ESA Climate Change Initiative, Lakes_cci v3.0 (Asfour et al. 2026; doi:10.5285/a56dba09df8a42ec9fba8b8c7a5e1f69). Chemistry on this page remains the lake's own.
The site
A 1988 photograph taken from a passenger aircraft shows Makuzi Beach beside Bandawe Point, with Mphandikucha Island in front of the beach.
Each entry below is the population of that species recorded here — the form aquarists keep and breed as a distinct, provenance-labelled line. Crossing forms from different collection points is considered hybridisation in the hobby.