Cienfuegos, Cuba

Cienfuegos, Cuba is a submarine cable landing point in Cuba (coordinates 22.1460°, -80.4490°). It serves 1 submarine cable system, making it a single-cable landing in Cuba's international connectivity infrastructure.

Cienfuegos, capital of Cienfuegos Province, is a city on the southern coast of Cuba. It is located about 250 km (160 mi) from Havana and has a population of 178,368 in 2022. Since the late 1960s, Cienfuegos has become one of Cuba's main industrial centers, especially in the energy and sugar sectors. The city is dubbed La Perla del Sur. Despite being known as an industrial city of factories and various nuclear/electrical plants, and the name Cienfuegos literally translating to "one hundred fires", the city actually takes its name from the surname of Asturian-born José Cienfuegos Jovellanos, Captain General of Cuba (1816–19). Wikipedia

Connected submarine cables

Connectivity profile

From Cienfuegos, Cuba, international traffic can reach 1 countries through 1 cable system. Destinations include Martinique. 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 Cienfuegos, Cuba 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

• ARIMAO (2023) — ARIMAO is a point-to-point submarine cable linking Cuba and Martinique. Landing at Cienfuegos, Schoelcher, 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.