Uvira
oo-VEE-rah (approx.)
The atlas records 5 collection-point forms from Uvira, across 5 genera.
3.4000°S 29.1400°E
Uvira is a town at the northern end of Lake Tanganyika, on the DR Congo shore in South Kivu Province.
Where it is
Uvira is at the northern end of Lake Tanganyika.
Nearest collection points: Kavimvira 2.2 mi north · Luhanga 6.8 mi south · Kashombe 8.1 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: North basin (Bujumbura / Uvira) (~13 km) — Temperature 25.8 °C · pH 8.9 · Conductivity 659 µS/cm · Visibility (Secchi) 8.7 m
Surface temperature here
Across all year, monthly means run 78 °F to 81 °F — coolest in Aug, warmest in May. Measured by satellite 1995–2023: the daily median of clear readings within 10 km of the site (590 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 caption describes Uvira as the second-largest urban area in South Kivu Province, with the lake a main source of income for residents despite the erosion risk it poses along the shore.
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.