Kiliza
kee-LEE-zah (approx.)
The atlas records 5 collection-point forms from Kiliza, across 5 genera.
5.5032°S 29.3154°E
Kiliza is the name of three villages on Lake Tanganyika's DR Congo shore — un, deux, and trois; the second village lies about 7 km north of Kabimba.
Where it is
Kiliza is on the western shore of Lake Tanganyika, in its central third (150 mi south of the lake's northern tip).
Nearest collection points: Kawasindi Island 4 mi south-east · Kabimba 4.7 mi south-east · Kitoke 5.1 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) (~78 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 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 (665 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
The shore south of the three villages is described as mainly rocky all the way south to Kabimba.
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.