Collection point · Lake Tanganyika · Zambia

Katete

kah-TEH-teh (approx.)

The atlas records 32 collection-point forms from Katete, across 14 genera.

8.3274°S 30.5268°E

Katete is a village on Zambia's Lake Tanganyika shore, with a view toward Congo Point.

Where it is

Katete is on the western shore of Lake Tanganyika, in its southern third (345 mi south of the lake's northern tip).

Nearest collection points: Cape Chipimbi 3.4 mi north-east · Munshi 5.3 mi south-west · Chimba 8.1 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: Mpulungu (south basin) (~80 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 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 (1534 clear days). The rainy-season months are usually too cloudy to measure and are left blank.

Surface temperature by month near Katete — 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 — Katete, Lake Tanganyika, Zambia: location page and photo gallery (captions by David Lundvall)

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.