Collection point · Lake Tanganyika · Tanzania

Kambwimba

kahm-BWEEM-bah (approx.)

Also traded as “Kambwimba Kushangaza”

The atlas records 35 collection-point forms from Kambwimba, across 18 genera.

8.5372°S 31.1528°E

Kambwimba is a small bay on Tanzania's Lake Tanganyika shore, about 8 km north of the Kalambo River on the border with Zambia.

Where it is

Kambwimba is at the southern end of Lake Tanganyika, 360 mi south of the lake's northern tip.

Nearest collection points: Kantalamba 0.7 mi south-east · Kalubale 1.5 mi north-west · Kafungi 2.2 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) (~25 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 (1773 clear days). The rainy-season months are usually too cloudy to measure and are left blank.

Surface temperature by month near Kambwimba — 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.

The site

The shore here shows clear marks left by past high-water stands.

Sources

tanganyika.si — Kambwimba, Lake Tanganyika, Tanzania: location page and photo gallery (captions by African Diving Ltd, David Lundvall)

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.