Natal, Brazil

Natal, Brazil is a submarine cable landing point in Brazil (coordinates -5.7948°, -35.2112°). It serves 1 submarine cable system, making it a single-cable landing in Brazil's international connectivity infrastructure.

Natal is a Brazilian municipality and the capital of the state of Rio Grande do Norte, located in the Northeast Region of Brazil. Situated 2,227 kilometers from Brasília, the federal capital, it is the second smallest Brazilian state capital in area, covering an area of approximately 167 km2 (64 sq mi). With just over 750,000 inhabitants (2022), it is the most populous municipality in its state, the eighth in the Northeast, and the 24th in Brazil. The Greater Natal, composed of thirteen other municipalities in Rio Grande do Norte, has more than 1.5 million inhabitants, making it the fourth largest urban agglomeration in the Northeast and the nineteenth largest in Brazil. Wikipedia

Connected submarine cables

Connectivity profile

From Natal, Brazil, international traffic can reach 1 countries through 1 cable system. Destinations include Brazil. 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 Natal, Brazil 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

• Brazilian Festoon (1996) — Brazilian Festoon is a domestic submarine cable network within Brazil, connecting 14 coastal and island locations including Aracajú, Atafona, Ilhéus, João Pessoa, Macaé, and 9 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.