Collection point · Lake Tanganyika · Zambia

Cape Chaitika

KAYP chah-ee-TEE-kah (approx.)

The atlas records 32 collection-point forms from Cape Chaitika, across 18 genera.

8.5656°S 30.7902°E

Cape Chaitika is a cape on Zambia's Lake Tanganyika shore.

Where it is

Cape Chaitika is at the southern end of Lake Tanganyika, 362 mi south of the lake's northern tip.

Nearest collection points: Chisanze 1.2 mi south-west · Mibwebwe 2.3 mi west · Lunangwa South 2.5 mi south

Shore, third and distances are measured from the coordinates above against the lake’s mapped outline.

The water

Lake-wide measured chemistry of Lake Tanganyika — collection points share their lake's water; site-specific figures are shown only where the literature records them.

Temperature77–80.6 °F25–27 °C

pH8.6–9.2alkaline

Hardnesshard · 600–690 µS/cm

Nearest measured station: Mpulungu (south basin) (~41 km) — Temperature 24.5 °C · pH 8.9 · Conductivity 662 µS/cm · Visibility (Secchi) 11.9 m

Surface temperature here

Across Apr–Nov, monthly means run 76 °F to 82 °F — coolest in Jul. Measured by satellite 1995–2023: the daily median of clear readings within 10 km of the site (1699 clear days). The rainy-season months are usually too cloudy to measure and are left blank.

Surface temperature by month near Cape Chaitika — dot = mean, bar = typical range (10th–90th percentile), “–” = too cloudy to measure.

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.

Sources

tanganyika.si — Cape Chaitika, Lake Tanganyika, Zambia: location page and photo gallery (captions by Ndole Bay Lodge)

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.