Aquarist Atlas
Collection point · Lake Tanganyika · Tanzania

Kiti Point

KEE-tee POYNT (approx.)

The atlas records 1 collection-point form from Kiti Point.

5.2798°S 29.7862°E

Kiti Point is a village on Tanzania's Lake Tanganyika shore, about 2 km west of Karago.

Where it is

Kiti Point is on the eastern shore of Lake Tanganyika, in its central third (135 mi south of the lake's northern tip).

Nearest collection points: Karago 1.1 mi east · Malagarasi 5.5 mi north · Ifala Village 6 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.

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

Nearest measured station: Kigoma (central, east shore) (~48 km) — Temperature 25.7 °C · pH 8.9 · Conductivity 654 µS/cm · Visibility (Secchi) 12.8 m

This site

Habitatrockyrocky shore just north of the village

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 (927 clear days). The rainy-season months are usually too cloudy to measure and are left blank.

75°77°79°81°Jan: too few clear satellite days (3)–JFeb: too few clear satellite days (3)–FMar: too few clear satellite days (3)–MApr: too few clear satellite days (3)–AMay: 80 °F mean (78 °F–81 °F), 47 clear satellite daysMJun: 79 °F mean (77 °F–80 °F), 180 clear satellite daysJJul: 78 °F mean (76 °F–79 °F), 285 clear satellite daysJAug: 78 °F mean (76 °F–79 °F), 238 clear satellite daysASep: 78 °F mean (77 °F–80 °F), 119 clear satellite daysSOct: 79 °F mean (77 °F–80 °F), 42 clear satellite daysONov: too few clear satellite days (4)–NDec: too few clear satellite days (0)–D
Surface temperature by month near Kiti Point — 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

The shore just north of the village is described as rocky.

Sediment discharged by the nearby Malagarasi River affects the area with turbid water throughout the year, and the water south of the village is also affected by poor visibility.

Sources
  1. tanganyika.si — Kiti Point, Lake Tanganyika, Tanzania: location page and photo gallery (captions by African Diving Ltd)

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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