Kalala Island
kah-LAH-lah EYE-land (approx.)
The atlas records 11 collection-point forms from Kalala Island, across 7 genera.
8.1545°S 30.9546°E
Kalala Island is the northernmost island in Lake Tanganyika's Kala Archipelago, off Tanzania's shore, about 1 km east-north-east of Mikongolo Island.
Where it is
Kalala Island is on the western shore of Lake Tanganyika, in its southern third (334 mi south of the lake's northern tip).
Nearest collection points: Mikongolo Island 0.7 mi south-west · Kala Bay 1.2 mi north · Kala 1.7 mi north-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.
Nearest measured station: Mpulungu (south basin) (~69 km) — Temperature 24.5 °C · pH 8.9 · Conductivity 662 µS/cm · Visibility (Secchi) 11.9 m
Surface temperature here
Across Mar–Nov, monthly means run 76 °F to 82 °F — coolest in Jul. Measured by satellite 1995–2023: the daily median of clear readings within 10 km of the site (1549 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
Site captions place Mikongolo Island — also spelled Mikongola in one caption — behind Kalala Island.
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.