Porlamar, Venezuela

Porlamar, Venezuela is a submarine cable landing point in Venezuela (coordinates 10.9553°, -63.8476°). It serves 1 submarine cable system, making it a single-cable landing in Venezuela's international connectivity infrastructure.

Porlamar is the most populated city, major seaport and major center in the state of Nueva Esparta, Venezuela. It is situated on the southern coast of Margarita Island, one of three islands in the Caribbean Sea off the South American mainland which make up the state of Nueva Esparta, at a distance of 6 miles (10 km) from the state capital of La Asunción. Porlamar is the capital of Mariño, the most populous of the eleven municipalities into which the state of Nueva Esparta is divided. Wikipedia

Connected submarine cables

Connectivity profile

From Porlamar, Venezuela, international traffic can reach 1 countries through 1 cable system. Destinations include Venezuela. 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 Porlamar, Venezuela 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

• Venezuelan Festoon (1998) — Venezuelan Festoon is a domestic submarine cable network within Venezuela, connecting 12 coastal and island locations including Cabimas, Camuri, Carúpano, Chichiriviche, Coro, and 7 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.