Landing Point · CU Cuba
| Cable | Status |
|---|---|
| ARIMAO | Active |
RTT measurements to this landing point from 2026-03-22 through 2026-05-28 — live ICMP round-trip time via RIPE Atlas probes. Recomputed daily. ✓ No anomalies detected in the monitored period.
| Probe | Location | Samples | Avg |
|---|---|---|---|
| #1014597 own probe | Tbilisi GE | 7 | 275.0 ms |
| #1014969 own probe | Jerusalem IL | 7 | 268.0 ms |
| #1014473 own probe | Minsk BY | 6 | 261.1 ms |
| #1014589 own probe | Almaty KZ | 6 | 296.7 ms |
| #1015523 own probe | Moscow RU | 4 | 250.9 ms |
| #1015313 own probe | Sevastopol UA | 3 | 291.8 ms |
Cienfuegos is a city on the southern coast of Cuba, situated approximately 250 kilometres from Havana and serving as the capital of Cienfuegos Province. One submarine cable lands at this location, connecting Cuba's southern coast to the eastern Caribbean. That cable, ARIMAO, links Cienfuegos to Martinique, establishing a direct submarine route between Cuba and the French Caribbean territory.
The ARIMAO connection positions Cienfuegos as a point of entry for Caribbean regional connectivity on Cuba's southern shore. While the city has long been recognised as one of Cuba's principal industrial centres, its submarine cable infrastructure reflects a more recent addition to the country's digital geography, with the ARIMAO cable carrying a draft ready-for-service date of 2023.
ARIMAO is a submarine cable system with a total length of 2,470 kilometres, with a draft ready-for-service date of 2023. The cable connects Cienfuegos, Cuba with Martinique, spanning the Caribbean Sea between the southern coast of Cuba and the French Caribbean island. ARIMAO is the sole submarine cable system landing at Cienfuegos.
Cuba's submarine cable infrastructure is distributed across four landing points. Guantanamo Bay leads among them with two cables, while Santiago de Cuba, Siboney, and Cienfuegos each host a single cable. Cienfuegos therefore sits alongside Santiago de Cuba and Siboney in the second tier of Cuban landing points by cable count, each serving as a single-cable terminus rather than a multi-cable hub.
Cienfuegos functions as a single-cable submarine landing point, with ARIMAO providing a direct link between Cuba's southern coast and Martinique in the eastern Caribbean. This corridor connects Cuba to a French overseas territory that itself serves as a hub within the Lesser Antilles, meaning the ARIMAO route offers onward potential into the broader eastern Caribbean cable network. The landing point does not currently operate as a junction for multiple systems, but as one of four submarine cable access points in Cuba, it contributes to the geographic distribution of the country's international submarine connectivity.
Within the broader Caribbean submarine cable graph, Cienfuegos represents the southern Cuban coast's dedicated point of international submarine access, complementing the other Cuban landing points that serve different coastal areas and destinations. Its single cable to Martinique adds a distinct eastern Caribbean route to Cuba's overall submarine cable portfolio.
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