Aquarist Atlas
Collection point · Lake Tanganyika · Zambia

Cape Kachese

KAYP kah-CHEH-seh (approx.)

Also traded as “Cape Kachese (Golden Kazumba)”, “Cape Kachese (Golden Kazumba) Kushangaza”

The atlas records 27 collection-point forms from Cape Kachese, across 14 genera.

8.4912°S 30.4787°E

Cape Kachese is a headland on Lake Tanganyika's Zambian shore, about 2 km north-north-west of Sumbu Island.

Where it is

Cape Kachese is on the western shore of Lake Tanganyika, in its southern third (357 mi south of the lake's northern tip).

Nearest collection points: Sumbu Island 1.2 mi south · Bismarck 1.6 mi south-east · Ndole Bay 2.1 mi west

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) (~76 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 (1524 clear days). The rainy-season months are usually too cloudy to measure and are left blank.

75°78°81°84°Jan: too few clear satellite days (1)–JFeb: too few clear satellite days (3)–FMar: too few clear satellite days (6)–MApr: 82 °F mean (80 °F–83 °F), 21 clear satellite daysAMay: 80 °F mean (78 °F–81 °F), 118 clear satellite daysMJun: 78 °F mean (76 °F–79 °F), 305 clear satellite daysJJul: 76 °F mean (75 °F–77 °F), 364 clear satellite daysJAug: 77 °F mean (76 °F–78 °F), 359 clear satellite daysASep: 78 °F mean (76 °F–79 °F), 232 clear satellite daysSOct: 80 °F mean (78 °F–82 °F), 91 clear satellite daysONov: 82 °F mean (81 °F–83 °F), 21 clear satellite daysNDec: too few clear satellite days (3)–D
Surface temperature by month near Cape Kachese — 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.

The site

Site captions identify a fish farm here, run by Mpende Fisheries — an aquaculture operation rather than a wild collection ground in the usual sense.

Sources
  1. tanganyika.si — Cape Kachese, Lake Tanganyika, Zambia: location page and photo gallery (captions by David Lundvall, Pam Chin)

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.

Altolamprologus (2)

Chalinochromis (1)

Cunningtonia (1)

Cyathopharynx (1)

Gnathochromis (1)

Julidochromis (2)

Lepidiolamprologus (1)

Neolamprologus (7)

Ophthalmotilapia (2)

Petrochromis (1)

Telmatochromis (1)

Triglachromis (1)

Tropheus (3)

Xenotilapia (3)

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