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Collection point · Lake Malawi · Malawi

Senga Point

SEHN-gah POYNT (approx.)

The atlas records 1 collection-point form from Senga Point.

13.7139°S 34.6284°E

Senga Point is a point on Lake Malawi's Malawian shore, about 5 km north of Senga Bay.

Where it is

Senga Point is on the western shore of Lake Malawi, in its southern third (293 mi south of the lake's northern tip).

Nearest collection points: Leopard Bay 1.2 mi north-west · Namalenje Island 1.4 mi south-east · Senga Bay 2.9 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.

Temperature75.2–84.2 °F24–29 °C
pH8.2–8.6alkaline
Hardnessmoderately soft, alkaline, well-buffered79 ppm
Conductivity≈250–260 µS/cmmeasured range

Nearest measured station: Salima (south-east shore) (~25 km) — Conductivity 235 µS/cm

Surface temperature here

Across Apr–Nov, monthly means run 75 °F to 82 °F — coolest in Jul. Measured by satellite 1995–2023: the daily median of clear readings within 10 km of the site (1342 clear days). The rainy-season months are usually too cloudy to measure and are left blank.

73°76°79°82°Jan: too few clear satellite days (1)–JFeb: too few clear satellite days (4)–FMar: too few clear satellite days (6)–MApr: 80 °F mean (78 °F–82 °F), 35 clear satellite daysAMay: 78 °F mean (77 °F–80 °F), 140 clear satellite daysMJun: 76 °F mean (75 °F–78 °F), 192 clear satellite daysJJul: 75 °F mean (74 °F–76 °F), 212 clear satellite daysJAug: 75 °F mean (74 °F–76 °F), 279 clear satellite daysASep: 76 °F mean (75 °F–78 °F), 270 clear satellite daysSOct: 80 °F mean (78 °F–82 °F), 141 clear satellite daysONov: 82 °F mean (80 °F–83 °F), 57 clear satellite daysNDec: too few clear satellite days (5)–D
Surface temperature by month near Senga 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.

Sources
  1. malawi.si — Senga Point, Lake Malawi, Malawi: location page and photo gallery

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.

Protomelas (1)

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