Aquarist Atlas
Collection point · Lake Tanganyika · Tanzania

Itinilo Rocks

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The atlas records 1 collection-point form from Itinilo Rocks.

6.9099°S 30.4931°E

Itinilo Rocks is a collection point on Lake Tanganyika's Tanzanian shore, about 4 km south-south-east of Kaswente.

Where it is

Itinilo Rocks is on the eastern shore of Lake Tanganyika, in its central third (247 mi south of the lake's northern tip).

Nearest collection points: Kaswente Bay 2.7 mi north-west · Caramba 2.9 mi south · Kansombo 4 mi south-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 Tanganyika — collection points share their lake's water; site-specific figures are shown only where the literature records them.

Temperature77–80.6 °F25–27 °C
pH8.6–9.2alkaline
Hardnesshard · 600–690 µS/cm

Nearest measured station: Mpulungu (south basin) (~217 km) — Temperature 24.5 °C · pH 8.9 · Conductivity 662 µS/cm · Visibility (Secchi) 11.9 m

This site

Habitatrockya rocks feature on Lake Tanganyika's Tanzanian shore

Surface temperature here

Across Apr–Nov, monthly means run 77 °F to 81 °F — coolest in Jul. Measured by satellite 1995–2023: the daily median of clear readings within 10 km of the site (1266 clear days). The rainy-season months are usually too cloudy to measure and are left blank.

75°78°81°Jan: too few clear satellite days (3)–JFeb: too few clear satellite days (5)–FMar: too few clear satellite days (6)–MApr: 81 °F mean (79 °F–82 °F), 12 clear satellite daysAMay: 79 °F mean (78 °F–80 °F), 83 clear satellite daysMJun: 78 °F mean (77 °F–80 °F), 258 clear satellite daysJJul: 77 °F mean (76 °F–78 °F), 339 clear satellite daysJAug: 77 °F mean (76 °F–78 °F), 308 clear satellite daysASep: 78 °F mean (76 °F–79 °F), 175 clear satellite daysSOct: 79 °F mean (77 °F–80 °F), 63 clear satellite daysONov: 79 °F mean (78 °F–80 °F), 11 clear satellite daysNDec: too few clear satellite days (3)–D
Surface temperature by month near Itinilo Rocks — dot = mean, bar = typical range (10th–90th percentile), “–” = too cloudy to measure.

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.

Sources
  1. tanganyika.si — Lake Tanganyika interactive locations map: Itinilo Rocks

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.

Cyphotilapia (1)

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