Aquarist Atlas
Collection point · Lake Malawi · Malawi

Kaporo

The atlas records 1 collection-point form from Kaporo.

9.7504°S 33.8908°E

Kaporo is a collection point on Lake Malawi's Malawian shore, under 1 km north-north-east of Kibwe River.

Where it is

Kaporo is on the western shore of Lake Malawi, in its northern third (19 mi south of the lake's northern tip).

Nearest collection points: Itungi 11 mi north-east · Karonga 14 mi south · Wissman Bay 19 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 Malawi — collection points share their lake's water; site-specific figures are shown only where the literature records them.

Temperature75.2–84.2 °F24–29 °C
pH8.2–8.6alkaline
Hardnessmoderately soft, alkaline, well-buffered79 ppm
Conductivity≈250–260 µS/cmmeasured range

Nearest measured station: Salima (south-east shore) (~448 km) — Conductivity 235 µS/cm

Surface temperature here

Across May–Dec, monthly means run 77 °F to 85 °F — coolest in Jul. Measured by satellite 1995–2023: the daily median of clear readings within 10 km of the site (793 clear days). The rainy-season months are usually too cloudy to measure and are left blank.

75°79°83°87°Jan: too few clear satellite days (0)–JFeb: too few clear satellite days (3)–FMar: too few clear satellite days (4)–MApr: too few clear satellite days (7)–AMay: 81 °F mean (79 °F–82 °F), 32 clear satellite daysMJun: 78 °F mean (77 °F–80 °F), 81 clear satellite daysJJul: 77 °F mean (76 °F–78 °F), 109 clear satellite daysJAug: 77 °F mean (76 °F–78 °F), 179 clear satellite daysASep: 78 °F mean (77 °F–80 °F), 195 clear satellite daysSOct: 80 °F mean (79 °F–83 °F), 123 clear satellite daysONov: 83 °F mean (81 °F–85 °F), 46 clear satellite daysNDec: 85 °F mean (83 °F–87 °F), 14 clear satellite daysD
Surface temperature by month near Kaporo — 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. malawi.si — Kaporo, Lake Malawi, Malawi: location page and photo gallery

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.

Mylochromis (1)

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