Collection point · Lake Tanganyika · Tanzania

Cape Kabogo

KAYP kah-BOH-goh (approx.)

The atlas records 27 collection-point forms from Cape Kabogo, across 17 genera.

5.5500°S 29.7500°E

Cape Kabogo is a cape on Tanzania's Lake Tanganyika shore, about 7 km west-southwest of Ifala.

Where it is

Cape Kabogo is in open water about 3.7 mi off the eastern shore, in the central third of Lake Tanganyika (153 mi south of the lake's northern tip).

Nearest collection points: Ifala 4.2 mi north-east · Mkuyu 4.8 mi north-east · Mkuyu Point 5.1 mi north

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: Kigoma (central, east shore) (~76 km) — Temperature 25.7 °C · pH 8.9 · Conductivity 654 µS/cm · Visibility (Secchi) 12.8 m

Surface temperature here

Across May–Oct, monthly means run 78 °F to 80 °F — coolest in Aug. Measured by satellite 1995–2023: the daily median of clear readings within 10 km of the site (929 clear days). The rainy-season months are usually too cloudy to measure and are left blank.

Surface temperature by month near Cape Kabogo — 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 Kabogo, Lake Tanganyika, Tanzania: location page and photo gallery

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.