Machico, Portugal

Machico, Portugal is a submarine cable landing point in Portugal (coordinates 32.7194°, -16.7632°). It serves 1 submarine cable system, making it a single-cable landing in Portugal's international connectivity infrastructure.

Machico is a municipality, parish and city in the southeast part of the island of Madeira, in the Autonomous Region of Madeira. The easternmost municipality on the island, it is also the third-most populous area with a population of 21,828 in 2011. The town, proper, had a population of 10,894 in 2001. Wikipedia

Connected submarine cables

Connectivity profile

From Machico, 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 Machico, 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

• New CAM Ring (2026) — New CAM Ring is a domestic submarine cable network within Portugal, connecting 6 coastal and island locations including Carcavelos, Funchal, Machico, São Miguel, Sines, and 1 more. 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.