Fuawe Island
foo-AH-weh EYE-land (approx.)
The atlas records 10 collection-point forms from Fuawe Island, across 7 genera.
13.4380°S 34.4749°E
Fuawe Island is an island off the Malawian shore, about 2 km west of Kampambe Island.
Where it is
Fuawe Island is in open water about 7.5 mi off the western shore, in the southern third of Lake Malawi (274 mi south of the lake's northern tip).
Nearest collection points: Mbenji Island 1.2 mi east · Ababi Island 1.6 mi east · Penga Penga Island 1.7 mi east
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) (~36 km) — Conductivity 235 µS/cm
This site
Surface temperature here
Across Apr–Nov, monthly means run 75 °F to 82 °F — coolest in Jul. Measured by satellite 1995–2023: the daily median of clear readings within 10 km of the site (1336 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
Fuawe Island is part of the Mbenji Islands group, together with Kampambe, Mbenji, Ababi and Penga Penga Island.
Sources
- malawi.si — Fuawe Island, Lake Malawi, Malawi: location page and photo gallery (captions by Ad Konings)
- Konings, A. (2016). Malawi Cichlids in their Natural Habitat, 5th Edition. Cichlid Press, El Paso.
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.