Aquarist Atlas
Collection point · Lake Tanganyika · Zambia

Mupapa

moo-PAH-pah (approx.)

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

8.6763°S 30.9001°E

Mupapa is a collection point on Zambia's Lake Tanganyika shore, about 3 km south-east of Tongwa.

Where it is

Mupapa is at the southern end of Lake Tanganyika, 370 mi south of the lake's northern tip.

Nearest collection points: Kalala 1 mi south-east · Tongwa 1.6 mi north-west · Kanfonki 2.4 mi south-east

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: Mpulungu (south basin) (~25 km) — Temperature 24.5 °C · pH 8.9 · Conductivity 662 µS/cm · Visibility (Secchi) 11.9 m

This site

Habitatintermediatebeach of small rocks and pebbles

Surface temperature here

Across Apr–Nov, monthly means run 76 °F to 82 °F — coolest in Jul. Measured by satellite 1995–2023: the daily median of clear readings within 10 km of the site (1727 clear days). The rainy-season months are usually too cloudy to measure and are left blank.

75°78°81°84°Jan: too few clear satellite days (2)–JFeb: too few clear satellite days (5)–FMar: too few clear satellite days (8)–MApr: 81 °F mean (79 °F–82 °F), 30 clear satellite daysAMay: 79 °F mean (78 °F–81 °F), 153 clear satellite daysMJun: 78 °F mean (76 °F–79 °F), 320 clear satellite daysJJul: 76 °F mean (75 °F–77 °F), 376 clear satellite daysJAug: 76 °F mean (75 °F–78 °F), 377 clear satellite daysASep: 78 °F mean (76 °F–80 °F), 286 clear satellite daysSOct: 80 °F mean (78 °F–82 °F), 139 clear satellite daysONov: 82 °F mean (81 °F–83 °F), 26 clear satellite daysNDec: too few clear satellite days (5)–D
Surface temperature by month near Mupapa — 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 caption describes the beach near Mupapa as characterized by small rocks and pebbles.

Sources
  1. tanganyika.si — Mupapa, Lake Tanganyika, Zambia: location page and photo gallery (captions by Heinz H. Buscher)

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.

Cyprichromis (1)

Lamprologus (1)

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