Ruarwe
roo-AH-rweh (approx.)
The atlas records 15 collection-point forms from Ruarwe, across 10 genera.
11.1110°S 34.2310°E
Ruarwe is a lakeside village on Lake Malawi's Malawian shore, under 1 km north-west of Chirwi Point.
Where it is
Ruarwe is on the western shore of Lake Malawi, in its northern third (113 mi south of the lake's northern tip).
Nearest collection points: Nkhoso Point 1.3 mi north · Mbowe Island 4.8 mi south · Mkondowe 5 mi north
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) (~294 km) — Conductivity 235 µS/cm
Surface temperature here
Across Apr–Nov, monthly means run 76 °F to 82 °F — coolest in Aug. Measured by satellite 1995–2023: the daily median of clear readings within 10 km of the site (869 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
The village's bay is documented separately as Ruarwe 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.