Nova Sintra, Cape Verde

Nova Sintra, Cape Verde: Submarine Cable Landing Point

Nova Sintra is a city located in the central part of the island of Brava, in the southwestern region of Cape Verde. As the seat of the Brava Municipality, it represents one of the archipelago's more remote inhabited islands, situated at an elevation of around 500 metres above sea level. Despite its relatively small population of approximately 1,500 residents, Nova Sintra serves as a submarine cable landing point, connecting Brava to the broader inter-island cable network of Cape Verde.

One submarine cable lands at Nova Sintra: the Cabo Verde Telecom Domestic Submarine Cable Phase 3. This cable operates entirely within Cape Verde, linking islands across the archipelago in a domestic inter-island configuration. Its presence at Nova Sintra reflects the broader national effort to extend submarine connectivity to the full extent of Cape Verde's island chain, including its more isolated southwestern islands such as Brava.

Cables Landing at Nova Sintra

The Cabo Verde Telecom Domestic Submarine Cable Phase 3 reached ready-for-service status in 2011, currently listed with a draft status. It connects landing points exclusively within Cape Verde, forming part of the country's domestic inter-island submarine cable infrastructure. No length data is available for this cable. Its routing links multiple Cape Verdean islands, with Nova Sintra representing one terminus of this intra-national system.

Regional Context

Among Cape Verde's ten submarine cable landing points, Nova Sintra ranks alongside Murdeira as one of the two landing points hosting a single cable. It sits below more connected hubs such as Praia with five cables, Sao Pedro with three, and Porto Novo, Sal Rei, and Tarrafal de Santiago, each with two cables. Within the national cable graph, Nova Sintra occupies the lower tier by cable count, though it remains part of Cape Verde's ten-point submarine network that collectively hosts six cables.

Network Role

Nova Sintra functions as a single-cable terminus within Cape Verde's domestic inter-island submarine cable system. Its role is purely intra-national, enabling submarine connectivity between the island of Brava and other Cape Verdean islands via the Cabo Verde Telecom Domestic Submarine Cable Phase 3. The landing point does not connect to international or intercontinental cable systems.

Its presence in the Cape Verdean submarine cable network ensures that Brava, one of the archipelago's more geographically isolated islands, is integrated into the domestic cable infrastructure. In the regional submarine cable graph, Nova Sintra represents the extension of national connectivity to the southwestern edge of the Cape Verdean island chain.