Flores, Portugal

Flores, Portugal is a submarine cable landing point in Portugal (coordinates 39.4622°, -31.1285°). It serves 1 submarine cable system, making it a single-cable landing in Portugal's international connectivity infrastructure.

Flores is one of the Lesser Sunda Islands, a group of islands in the eastern half of Indonesia. Administratively, it forms the largest island in the East Nusa Tenggara Province. The area is 14,250 km2. Including Komodo and Rinca islands off its west coast, the population was 1,878,875 in the 2020 Census ; the official estimate as of mid-2024 was 2,014,110. The largest towns are Ende and Maumere. The name Flores is of Portuguese origin, meaning "Flowers". Wikipedia

Connected submarine cables

Connectivity profile

From Flores, Portugal, international traffic can reach 1 countries through 1 cable system. Destinations include Portugal. 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 Flores, Portugal 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

• Flores-Corvo Cable System (2014) — Flores-Corvo Cable System is a domestic submarine cable network within Portugal, connecting 4 coastal and island locations including Corvo, Faial, Flores, Graciosa. The system provides essential telecommunications infrastructure for communities that would otherwise depend entirely on satellite or microwave links. Read more →

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