Kawasindi Island
kah-wah-SEEN-dee EYE-land (approx.)
The atlas records 5 collection-point forms from Kawasindi Island, across 5 genera.
5.5467°S 29.3547°E
Kawasindi Island is an island in Lake Tanganyika's DR Congo waters, about 1 km north-north-east of Kabimba Bay.
Where it is
Kawasindi Island is on the western shore of Lake Tanganyika, in its central third (153 mi south of the lake's northern tip).
Nearest collection points: Kabimba 1.2 mi south-west · Katenga 3.2 mi south · Mukindu 4 mi south
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) (~80 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 (692 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
A caption locates a photograph at the island's southwestern point.
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.