Collection point · Lake Tanganyika · Tanzania

Kasanga

kah-SAHN-gah (approx.)

The atlas records 37 collection-point forms from Kasanga, across 20 genera.

8.4700°S 31.1300°E

Kasanga is a collection area on Tanzania's Lake Tanganyika shore comprising the villages of Songambele, Lusembo, Kitika, and Kiliwani, near Kasanga Port and Bomani Point at the end of Kikuma Ridge.

Where it is

Kasanga is on the eastern shore of Lake Tanganyika, in its southern third (355 mi south of the lake's northern tip).

Nearest collection points: Kafyoko Point 1.7 mi south · Liemba Beach Lodge 2.4 mi north-east · Muzi 3.1 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.

Temperature77–80.6 °F25–27 °C

pH8.6–9.2alkaline

Hardnesshard · 600–690 µS/cm

Nearest measured station: Mpulungu (south basin) (~32 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 (1732 clear days). The rainy-season months are usually too cloudy to measure and are left blank.

Surface temperature by month near Kasanga — 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

Kasanga Port, visible from the area, was built in 1996 with Norwegian grant aid.

Sources

tanganyika.si — Kasanga, Lake Tanganyika, Tanzania: location page and photo gallery (captions by African Diving Ltd, Oscar Mangwangwa)

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.