Landing Point · CL Chile
| Cable | Status |
|---|---|
| Prat | Active |
RTT measurements to this landing point from 2026-04-10 through 2026-05-24 — live ICMP round-trip time via RIPE Atlas probes. Recomputed daily. ✓ No anomalies detected in the monitored period.
| Probe | Location | Samples | Avg |
|---|---|---|---|
| #1014589 own probe | Almaty KZ | 6 | 321.4 ms |
| #1014597 own probe | Tbilisi GE | 6 | 302.5 ms |
| #1014473 own probe | Minsk BY | 5 | 255.3 ms |
| #1014969 own probe | Jerusalem IL | 5 | 274.0 ms |
| #1015523 own probe | Moscow RU | 3 | 290.0 ms |
| #1015313 own probe | Sevastopol UA | 2 | 307.8 ms |
| #1015563 own probe | Saint Petersburg RU | 1 | 251.3 ms |
La Serena is a city on the northern coast of Chile, serving as the capital of the Coquimbo Region. As a coastal settlement, it hosts submarine cable infrastructure connecting it to Chile's national undersea network. One submarine cable lands at La Serena, the Prat cable, which links this landing point exclusively to other locations within Chile. The Prat cable accordingly enables domestic, intra-national connectivity rather than intercontinental or interregional links.
Within Chile's broader submarine cable landscape, which encompasses nine cables distributed across nineteen landing points, La Serena represents one of several single-cable landing points along the country's Pacific coastline. Its single landing positions it as a terminus node rather than a multi-cable hub, contributing to the coastal chain of connectivity that runs along Chile's extended shoreline.
Prat is a submarine cable with a length of approximately 3,500 km, reaching ready-for-service (RFS) status in 2020 on a draft basis. The cable connects multiple landing points entirely within Chile, making it a domestic submarine cable system. All other endpoints on the Prat cable are located within Chilean territory, meaning the system is designed to serve intra-national communications along Chile's coast rather than linking Chile to foreign countries.
Among Chile's nineteen landing points, La Serena is one of several locations hosting a single submarine cable, alongside Antofagasta, Caldera, and Cartagena. It ranks within the top 84% of Chilean landing points by cable count, placing it below more heavily served hubs such as Valparaíso, which hosts six cables, and Arica, which hosts three. Puerto Montt, with two cables, also surpasses La Serena in terms of cable volume.
La Serena functions as a single-cable terminus on Chile's domestic submarine cable network. The Prat cable, connecting points exclusively within Chile, allows La Serena to participate in the country's coastal undersea connectivity corridor without serving as a gateway to international submarine routes. This positions the landing point as a node in the intra-national segment of Chile's submarine infrastructure, rather than in the intercontinental tier represented by other Chilean landing points with internationally oriented cables.
In the regional submarine cable graph, La Serena's role illustrates how a country with an exceptionally long coastline — such as Chile — relies on domestic submarine cables to bridge distances between coastal communities, supplementing the international connections concentrated at larger hubs like Valparaíso.
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