Chilumba
chee-LOOM-bah (approx.)
The atlas records 20 collection-point forms from Chilumba, across 12 genera.
10.4306°S 34.2512°E
Chilumba is a site on Lake Malawi's Malawian shore, about 2 km north-north-west of Chifyo.
Where it is
Chilumba is on the western shore of Lake Malawi, in its northern third (66 mi south of the lake's northern tip).
Nearest collection points: Blue Earth Point 1.3 mi south-east · Blue Earth Reef 1.5 mi east · Bamba Rock 1.7 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) (~369 km) — Conductivity 235 µS/cm
Surface temperature here
Across May–Nov, monthly means run 76 °F to 81 °F — coolest in Aug. Measured by satellite 1995–2023: the daily median of clear readings within 10 km of the site (896 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.