Chiloelo
chee-loh-EH-loh (approx.)
The atlas records 27 collection-point forms from Chiloelo, across 17 genera.
13.2092°S 34.8090°E
Chiloelo is a site on Lake Malawi's Mozambique shore, about 1 km north of the Luaice River mouth.
Where it is
Chiloelo is on the eastern shore of Lake Malawi, in its southern third (258 mi south of the lake's northern tip).
Nearest collection points: Lumessi 5 mi north · Chinuni 9.9 mi north · Thundu 14 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 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) (~75 km) — Conductivity 235 µS/cm
Surface temperature here
Across Apr–Nov, monthly means run 75 °F to 81 °F — coolest in Aug. Measured by satellite 1995–2023: the daily median of clear readings within 10 km of the site (1363 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.
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.