Aquarist Atlas
Collection point · Lake Tanganyika · DR Congo

Katete (Ubwari)

kah-TEH-teh oo-BWAH-ree (approx.)

The atlas records 1 collection-point form from Katete (Ubwari).

4.4910°S 29.2137°E

Katete (Ubwari) is a collection point on DR Congo's Lake Tanganyika shore, about 2 km south of Buma I.

Where it is

Katete (Ubwari) is on the western shore of Lake Tanganyika, in its northern third (80 mi south of the lake's northern tip).

Nearest collection points: Cape Caramba 2.1 mi south · Kasimia 5.5 mi south-west · Bemba 14 mi south-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.

Temperature77–80.6 °F25–27 °C
pH8.6–9.2alkaline
Hardnesshard · 600–690 µS/cm

Nearest measured station: Kigoma (central, east shore) (~63 km) — Temperature 25.7 °C · pH 8.9 · Conductivity 654 µS/cm · Visibility (Secchi) 12.8 m

Surface temperature here

Across May–Oct, monthly means run 78 °F to 80 °F — coolest in Aug. Measured by satellite 1995–2023: the daily median of clear readings within 10 km of the site (467 clear days). The rainy-season months are usually too cloudy to measure and are left blank.

76°78°80°82°Jan: too few clear satellite days (2)–JFeb: too few clear satellite days (4)–FMar: too few clear satellite days (5)–MApr: too few clear satellite days (4)–AMay: 80 °F mean (79 °F–81 °F), 16 clear satellite daysMJun: 79 °F mean (78 °F–80 °F), 58 clear satellite daysJJul: 78 °F mean (77 °F–80 °F), 139 clear satellite daysJAug: 78 °F mean (77 °F–79 °F), 139 clear satellite daysASep: 78 °F mean (77 °F–80 °F), 74 clear satellite daysSOct: 79 °F mean (78 °F–80 °F), 22 clear satellite daysONov: too few clear satellite days (2)–NDec: too few clear satellite days (2)–D
Surface temperature by month near Katete (Ubwari) — 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. tanganyika.si — Lake Tanganyika interactive locations map: Katete (Ubwari)

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.

Tropheus (1)

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