Halembe
hah-LEHM-beh (approx.)
Also traded as “Halembe (Kushangaza)”
The atlas records 23 collection-point forms from Halembe, across 17 genera.
5.7292°S 29.9176°E
Halembe is a locality on Lake Tanganyika's Tanzanian shore, about 4 km south-south-east of Kangwena.
Where it is
Halembe is on the eastern shore of Lake Tanganyika, in its central third (166 mi south of the lake's northern tip).
Nearest collection points: Kangwena 2.7 mi north · Lusungura Point 4.4 mi north-west · Kungwe Point 7.5 mi north-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.
Nearest measured station: Kigoma (central, east shore) (~100 km) — Temperature 25.7 °C · pH 8.9 · Conductivity 654 µS/cm · Visibility (Secchi) 12.8 m
Surface temperature here
Across May–Oct, monthly means run 78 °F to 80 °F — coolest in Aug. Measured by satellite 1995–2023: the daily median of clear readings within 10 km of the site (965 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 caption describes an African Diving boat being manoeuvred by hand through the surf here before mooring in a small creek — evidence of an exposed, surf-affected shore.
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.