Chaguaramas, Trinidad and Tobago

Chaguaramas, Trinidad and Tobago is a submarine cable landing point in Trinidad and Tobago (coordinates 10.6862°, -61.6508°). It serves 5 submarine cable systems, making it a significant node in Trinidad and Tobago's international connectivity infrastructure.

Chaguaramas lies in the Northwest Peninsula of Trinidad west of Port of Spain; the name is often applied to the entire peninsula, but is sometimes used to refer to its most developed area. The developed area in Chaguaramas starts at an Aloca aluminum manufacturing plant and dock, and ends at the Army and Coast Guard camps on the mainland. Offshore, a group known as The Five Islands are in various stages of development or redevelopment, as of 2016. Wikipedia

Connected submarine cables

Operators landing at Chaguaramas, Trinidad and Tobago

Cables landing at Chaguaramas, Trinidad and Tobago are operated by 8 distinct consortium partners and carriers, including AT&T, Claro Dominicana (Codetel), Digicel, Guyana Telephone and Telegraph (GT&T), Liberty Networks, Orange, Telesur, Verizon. Each cable is typically jointly owned by a consortium of tier-one carriers and hyperscale operators who share construction costs and capacity; the operator mix reflects both regional incumbents and global players with interest in the routes served by this landing point.

Connectivity profile

From Chaguaramas, Trinidad and Tobago, international traffic can reach 22 countries through 5 cable systems. Destinations include Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Curaçao, Dominica, French Guiana, Grenada, Guadeloupe and 14 more. With multiple redundant paths, traffic at this landing point can reroute through alternative cables if any single system experiences an outage.

Monitoring status

GeoCables recorded 1 monitoring event on cables serving Chaguaramas, Trinidad and Tobago in the past 90 days. Our monitoring network continuously samples latency from external probes to targets reachable via these cables.

About the cables

• Deep Blue One (2024) — Deep Blue One is a regional submarine cable connecting 4 countries — French Guiana, Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, Suriname — with 5 landing points including Cayenne, French Guiana, Chaguaramas, Trinidad and Tobago, Georgetown, Guyana, Paramaribo, Suriname and others. Read more →
• Suriname-Guyana Submarine Cable System (SG-SCS) (2010) — Suriname-Guyana Submarine Cable System (SG-SCS) is a regional submarine cable connecting 3 countries — Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, Suriname — with 3 landing points including Chaguaramas, Trinidad and Tobago, Georgetown, Guyana, Totness, Suriname. It enhances regional connectivity and provides route diversity for internet traffic in Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, Suriname. Read more →
• EC Link (2007) — EC Link is a 1,100 km repeatered submarine cable connecting Chaguaramas (Trinidad and Tobago), Willemstad (Curaçao), and North Salina (Bonaire) in the southern Caribbean. Owned by Liberty Latin America through C&W Networks, it is one of the older Caribbean submarine systems still in active service since 2007. Read more →
• Southern Caribbean Fiber (2006) — Southern Caribbean Fiber is a regional submarine cable connecting 15 countries — Guadeloupe, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Montserrat, Dominica, Trinidad and Tobago and others — with 16 landing points including Baie-Mahault, Guadeloupe, Baillif, Guadeloupe, Basseterre, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Bunkum Bay, Montserrat and others. Read more →
• Eastern Caribbean Fiber System (ECFS) (1995) — Eastern Caribbean Fiber System (ECFS) is a regional submarine cable connecting 13 countries — Barbados, Saint Lucia, Trinidad and Tobago, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and others — with 13 landing points including Bridgetown, Barbados, Castries, Saint Lucia, Chaguaramas, Trinidad and Tobago, Frigate Bay, Saint Kitts and Nevis and others. Read more →

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