Aquarist Atlas
Collection point · Lake Tanganyika · DR Congo

Ubwari (South)

oo-BWAH-ree SOWTH (approx.)

The atlas records 1 collection-point form from Ubwari (South).

4.0500°S 29.0500°E

Ubwari (South) is the collection label for the southern part of the Ubwari Peninsula, on Lake Tanganyika's DR Congo shore.

Where it is

Ubwari (South) is on the western shore of Lake Tanganyika, in its northern third (50 mi south of the lake's northern tip).

Nearest collection points: Baraka 4.4 mi south-east · Lueba 4.8 mi north-east · Buko 9.3 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 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: North basin (Bujumbura / Uvira) (~63 km) — Temperature 25.8 °C · pH 8.9 · Conductivity 659 µS/cm · Visibility (Secchi) 8.7 m

Surface temperature here

Across May–Oct, monthly means run 78 °F to 81 °F — coolest in Aug. Measured by satellite 1995–2023: the daily median of clear readings within 10 km of the site (386 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 (5)–JFeb: too few clear satellite days (6)–FMar: too few clear satellite days (7)–MApr: too few clear satellite days (5)–AMay: 81 °F mean (80 °F–82 °F), 17 clear satellite daysMJun: 80 °F mean (79 °F–81 °F), 46 clear satellite daysJJul: 78 °F mean (77 °F–79 °F), 105 clear satellite daysJAug: 78 °F mean (77 °F–79 °F), 117 clear satellite daysASep: 78 °F mean (77 °F–80 °F), 54 clear satellite daysSOct: 79 °F mean (78 °F–81 °F), 14 clear satellite daysONov: too few clear satellite days (6)–NDec: too few clear satellite days (4)–D
Surface temperature by month near Ubwari (South) — 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. tanganyika.si — Lake Tanganyika interactive locations map: Kabanga (Ubwari)

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.

Tropheus (1)

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