Metangula
meh-tahn-GOO-lah (approx.)
The atlas records 18 collection-point forms from Metangula, across 13 genera.
12.6941°S 34.8082°E
Metangula is a collection point on Lake Malawi's Mozambican shore, lying under 1 km south of Metangula Bay (North).
Where it is
Metangula is on the eastern shore of Lake Malawi, in its central third (222 mi south of the lake's northern tip).
Nearest collection points: Chilucha Reef 1.4 mi south-west · Chuanga 4.2 mi north · Nkolongwe 6.8 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 Malawi — collection points share their lake's water; site-specific figures are shown only where the literature records them.
Nearest measured station: Salima (south-east shore) (~125 km) — Conductivity 235 µS/cm
Surface temperature here
Across Apr–Nov, monthly means run 76 °F to 81 °F — coolest in Aug. Measured by satellite 1995–2023: the daily median of clear readings within 10 km of the site (1201 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
Site photographs show the African Diving Team with their boat Poseidon Pioneer at Metangula in 1995, and a captioned view of Metangula Fisheries Research.
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.