Mumbo Island is an island within

Lake Malawi National Park Lake Malawi National Park is a national park at the southern end of Lake Malawi in Malawi, Southeast Africa. It is the only national park in Malawi that was created with the purpose of protecting fish and aquatic habitats. Despite this being its m ...

, located in the Salima District of the Central Region, some east of the capital

Lilongwe Lilongwe (, , ) is the capital and most populated city of the African country of Malawi. It has a population of 989,318 as of the 2018 Census, up from a population of 674,448 in 2008. In 2020 that figure was 1,122,000. The city is located in th ...

. It has no permanent settlement but is home to Mumbo Camp, an ecoboutique camp (i.e. an

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Wildlife

The island is home to African fish eagles, monitor lizards, African clawless otters and a number of species of

cichlid Cichlids are fish from the family Cichlidae in the order Cichliformes. Cichlids were traditionally classed in a suborder, the Labroidei, along with the wrasses ( Labridae), in the order Perciformes, but molecular studies have contradicted this ...

References

Lake Malawi Lake islands of Malawi {{Island-stub