Wikihi
wee-KEE-hee (approx.)
The atlas records 5 collection-point forms from Wikihi, across 3 genera.
11.6158°S 34.9567°E
Wikihi is a small village on Lake Malawi's Mozambican shore, about 5 km south of the Mozambique/Tanzania Border.
Where it is
Wikihi is on the eastern shore of Lake Malawi, in its central third (148 mi south of the lake's northern tip).
Nearest collection points: Chiwindi 2.3 mi north · Liutche 5.6 mi south · Ngombe 6.8 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.
Nearest measured station: Salima (south-east shore) (~245 km) — Conductivity 235 µS/cm
Surface temperature here
Across May–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 (1067 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
One site photograph shows smoke from a hillside fire near the village, which the caption attributes to land being cleared for agriculture.
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.