Chirombo Bay
The atlas records 1 collection-point form from Chirombo Bay.
14.1169°S 34.9306°E
Chirombo Bay is a bay on Lake Malawi's Malawian shore, under 1 km south of Kanchedza Island.
Where it is
Chirombo Bay is on the western shore of Lake Malawi, in its southern third (321 mi south of the lake's northern tip).
Nearest collection points: Kanchedza Island 0.5 mi north · Masasa Reef 1.4 mi north · Songwe Hill 2.1 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 Malawi — collection points share their lake's water; site-specific figures are shown only where the literature records them.
Nearest measured station: Monkey Bay (south basin) (~11 km) — Visibility (Secchi) 12.5 m
Surface temperature here
Across Apr–Nov, monthly means run 74 °F to 81 °F — coolest in Jul. Measured by satellite 1995–2023: the daily median of clear readings within 10 km of the site (1436 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.
The site
One site photograph shows Kanchedza Island on the right of the bay.
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.