Cacique, Dominican Republic

Cacique, Dominican Republic is a submarine cable landing point in Dominican Republic (coordinates 18.6996°, -70.1617°). It serves 1 submarine cable system, making it a single-cable landing in Dominican Republic's international connectivity infrastructure.

A cacique, sometimes spelled as cazique, was a tribal chieftain of the Taíno people, who were the Indigenous inhabitants of the Bahamas, the Greater Antilles, and the northern Lesser Antilles at the time of European contact with those places. The term is a Spanish transliteration of the Taíno word kasike. Wikipedia

Connected submarine cables

Connectivity profile

From Cacique, Dominican Republic, international traffic can reach 2 countries through 1 cable system. Destinations include Dominican Republic, United States. 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 Cacique, Dominican Republic 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

• Antillas 1 (1997) — Antillas 1 is a point-to-point submarine cable linking Dominican Republic and United States. Landing at Cacique, Isla Verde, Punta Cana, it provides a direct fiber-optic path between the two countries, serving as both a primary data route and a redundancy option for neighboring cable systems. Read more →

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