The longest and one of the largest freshwater lakes in the world, Lake Tanganyika is part of a lake chain in the Great Rift Valley of Africa. The lake is 660 kilometers long and has a depth of 4,710 feet and is located 45 kilometers from Bujumbura Town and has latitudes/longitudes of 3°21′-8°51’S/29°04′-31°12’E with an altitude of 773 meters above sea level. It is shared by Burundi, Democratic Republic Congo, Tanzania and Zambia. Of the lake’s shoreline perimeter, 9 percent is in Burundi, 43 percent is in D.R. Congo, 36 percent is in Tanzania, and 12 percent is in Zambia. The lake has more than 2000 species of fish over half of which are endemic to the Tanganyika Basin and supports 1,000,000 fisheries livelihoods.