Aquarist Atlas
Collection point · Lake Tanganyika · Tanzania

Mkuyu Point

m-KOO-yoo POYNT (approx.)

The atlas records 2 collection-point forms from Mkuyu Point, across 2 genera.

5.4772°S 29.7606°E

Mkuyu Point is a point on Tanzania's Lake Tanganyika shore, about 2 km south-east of Cape Kabogo.

Where it is

Mkuyu Point is on the eastern shore of Lake Tanganyika, in its central third (149 mi south of the lake's northern tip).

Nearest collection points: Mkuyu 1.5 mi south-east · Ifala 4 mi south-east · Cape Kabogo 5.1 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.

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

Nearest measured station: Kigoma (central, east shore) (~68 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 (894 clear days). The rainy-season months are usually too cloudy to measure and are left blank.

76°78°80°82°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 (79 °F–81 °F), 50 clear satellite daysMJun: 79 °F mean (78 °F–80 °F), 173 clear satellite daysJJul: 78 °F mean (77 °F–79 °F), 264 clear satellite daysJAug: 78 °F mean (77 °F–79 °F), 227 clear satellite daysASep: 78 °F mean (76 °F–79 °F), 124 clear satellite daysSOct: 79 °F mean (78 °F–80 °F), 40 clear satellite daysONov: too few clear satellite days (4)–NDec: too few clear satellite days (0)–D
Surface temperature by month near Mkuyu 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

A site photograph is captioned Mkuyu Camp.

Sources
  1. tanganyika.si — Mkuyu Point, Lake Tanganyika, Tanzania: location page and photo gallery (captions by Pam Chin)

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.

Cyphotilapia (1)

Paracyprichromis (1)

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