Porto Alegre, Brazil

Porto Alegre, Brazil is a submarine cable landing point in Brazil (coordinates -30.0343°, -51.2280°). It serves 1 submarine cable system, making it a single-cable landing in Brazil's international connectivity infrastructure.

Porto Alegre is the capital and largest city of the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul. Its population of roughly 1.4 million inhabitants (2022) makes it the 11th-most populous city in the country and the centre of Brazil's fifth-largest metropolitan area, with 4.1 million inhabitants (2022). The city is the southernmost capital city of a Brazilian state. Wikipedia

Connected submarine cables

Connectivity profile

From Porto Alegre, Brazil, international traffic can reach 2 countries through 1 cable system. Destinations include Argentina, 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 Porto Alegre, 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

• Malbec (2021) — Malbec is a point-to-point submarine cable linking Argentina and Brazil. Landing at Las Toninas, Porto Alegre, Praia Grande, Rio de Janeiro, it provides a direct fiber-optic path between the two countries, serving as both a primary data route and a redundancy option for neighboring cable systems. Read more →

Submarine cable data from TeleGeography. Geographic context from Wikipedia. Monitoring metrics updated continuously by GeoCables.