Kourou, French Guiana

Kourou, French Guiana is a submarine cable landing point in French Guiana (coordinates 5.1683°, -52.6456°). It serves 1 submarine cable system, making it a single-cable landing in French Guiana's international connectivity infrastructure.

Kourou is a commune in French Guiana, an overseas region and department of France in South America. Kourou is famous for being the location of the Guiana Space Centre, the main spaceport of France and the European Space Agency (ESA). It is an administrative district in French Guiana and the main town there. Wikipedia

Connected submarine cables

Connectivity profile

From Kourou, French Guiana, 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 Kourou, French Guiana 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

• Kanawa (2019) — Kanawa is a point-to-point submarine cable linking French Guiana and Martinique. Landing at Kourou, 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.