Karago
kah-RAH-goh (approx.)
The atlas records 7 collection-point forms from Karago, across 7 genera.
5.2800°S 29.8024°E
Karago is a village on Tanzania's Lake Tanganyika shore, about 3 km south of the Malagarasi River.
Where it is
Karago is on the eastern shore of Lake Tanganyika, in its central third (135 mi south of the lake's northern tip).
Nearest collection points: Kiti Point 1.1 mi west · Malagarasi 5.7 mi north · Ifala Village 6.8 mi north-west
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: Kigoma (central, east shore) (~48 km) — Temperature 25.7 °C · pH 8.9 · Conductivity 654 µS/cm · Visibility (Secchi) 12.8 m
This site
Surface temperature here
Across May–Oct, monthly means run 77 °F to 80 °F — coolest in Aug. Measured by satellite 1995–2023: the daily median of clear readings within 10 km of the site (917 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 photographs describe rocky ground beginning just north of the village, and turbid water reaching the site from the Malagarasi River.
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.