Aquarist Atlas
Collection point · Lake Tanganyika · Tanzania

Kagongo

kah-GOHN-goh (approx.)

The atlas records 1 collection-point form from Kagongo.

3.8553°S 29.3675°E

Kagongo is a collection point on Lake Tanganyika's Tanzanian shore, under 1 km south-east of Cinjira River.

Where it is

Kagongo is on the eastern shore of Lake Tanganyika, in its northern third (36 mi south of the lake's northern tip).

Nearest collection points: Resha 1.4 mi south-east · Minago 3.5 mi north-west · Rumonge 9.3 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: North basin (Bujumbura / Uvira) (~44 km) — Temperature 25.8 °C · pH 8.9 · Conductivity 659 µS/cm · Visibility (Secchi) 8.7 m

Surface temperature here

Across 8 of 12 months, 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 (575 clear days). The rainy-season months are usually too cloudy to measure and are left blank.

76°78°80°82°Jan: 79 °F mean (78 °F–80 °F), 12 clear satellite daysJFeb: 79 °F mean (78 °F–80 °F), 11 clear satellite daysFMar: too few clear satellite days (9)–MApr: too few clear satellite days (6)–AMay: 80 °F mean (79 °F–81 °F), 28 clear satellite daysMJun: 79 °F mean (78 °F–80 °F), 83 clear satellite daysJJul: 78 °F mean (77 °F–80 °F), 156 clear satellite daysJAug: 78 °F mean (77 °F–79 °F), 151 clear satellite daysASep: 78 °F mean (76 °F–79 °F), 76 clear satellite daysSOct: 79 °F mean (77 °F–80 °F), 29 clear satellite daysONov: too few clear satellite days (7)–NDec: too few clear satellite days (7)–D
Surface temperature by month near Kagongo — 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 — Kagongo, Lake Tanganyika, Tanzania: location page and photo gallery (captions by Carl Westholm)

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.

Julidochromis (1)

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