Bluefields, Nicaragua

Bluefields, Nicaragua is a submarine cable landing point in Nicaragua (coordinates 11.9918°, -83.7715°). It serves 1 submarine cable system, making it a single-cable landing in Nicaragua's international connectivity infrastructure.

Bluefields is a city and municipality on the central Mosquito Coast, and capital of the South Caribbean Coast Autonomous Region, Nicaragua. Historically, it held far greater significance as the political and administrative capital of the Kingdom of Mosquitia, which maintained independence and later protectorate status under Great Britain during the 17th to 19th centuries. Following the kingdom's annexation in 1894, the city became the capital of the Zelaya Department. Wikipedia

Connected submarine cables

Connectivity profile

From Bluefields, Nicaragua, international traffic can reach 14 countries through 1 cable system. Destinations include Bahamas, Belize, Colombia, Costa Rica, Curaçao, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Honduras and 6 more. This location depends on a single cable system — a characteristic that makes it strategically sensitive to physical disruptions.

Monitoring status

No monitoring incidents were recorded on cables serving Bluefields, Nicaragua in the past 90 days — all connected systems remained within normal latency thresholds. Our monitoring network continuously samples latency from external probes to targets reachable via these cables.

About the cables

• ARCOS (2001) — ARCOS is a major intercontinental submarine cable system spanning 14 countries across Central America, South America, North America. With 24 landing points — including Belize City, Bluefields, Cancún, Cartagena, Cat Island, and 19 more — it forms one of the backbone links carrying international internet traffic between continents. Read more →

Submarine cable data from TeleGeography. Geographic context from Wikipedia. Monitoring metrics updated continuously by GeoCables.