Collection point · Lake Tanganyika · DR Congo

Kapampa

kah-PAHM-pah (approx.)

The atlas records 23 collection-point forms from Kapampa, across 14 genera.

7.6302°S 30.1950°E

Kapampa is a locality on Lake Tanganyika's Democratic Republic of Congo shore, about 3 km south of Kileba.

Where it is

Kapampa is on the western shore of Lake Tanganyika, in its southern third (297 mi south of the lake's northern tip).

Nearest collection points: Masanza 3.9 mi north · Kiku 11 mi south-east · Mwerazi 14 mi north

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) (~161 km) — Temperature 24.5 °C · pH 8.9 · Conductivity 662 µS/cm · Visibility (Secchi) 11.9 m

Surface temperature here

Across Apr–Nov, monthly means run 77 °F to 82 °F — coolest in Jul. Measured by satellite 1995–2023: the daily median of clear readings within 10 km of the site (1238 clear days). The rainy-season months are usually too cloudy to measure and are left blank.

Surface temperature by month near Kapampa — 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

tanganyika.si — Kapampa, Lake Tanganyika, DR Congo: location page and photo gallery (captions by Ad Konings)

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.