Nondwa Point
NOHN-dwah POYNT (approx.)
The atlas records 12 collection-point forms from Nondwa Point, across 10 genera.
4.8629°S 29.6094°E
Nondwa Point is a point on Lake Tanganyika's Tanzanian shore, about 2 km west of Kibirizi (Kigoma).
Where it is
Nondwa Point is on the eastern shore of Lake Tanganyika, in its northern third (106 mi south of the lake's northern tip).
Nearest collection points: Kalalangabo 1.6 mi north · Kigoma 1.9 mi south-east · Cape Bangwe 2 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.
Nearest measured station: Kigoma (central, east shore) (~3 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 (627 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
A site photograph is captioned as "a view from Nondwa Point on Kigoma bay."
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.