Porto Santo, Portugal

Porto Santo, Portugal is a submarine cable landing point in Portugal (coordinates 33.0473°, -16.3477°). It serves 1 submarine cable system, making it a single-cable landing in Portugal's international connectivity infrastructure.

Porto Santo Island is a Portuguese island and municipality 43 kilometres northeast of Madeira Island in the North Atlantic Ocean; it is the northernmost and easternmost island of the archipelago of Madeira, located in the Atlantic Ocean west of Europe and Africa. The municipality of Porto Santo occupies the entire island and small neighbouring islands. It was elevated to city status on 6 August 1996. The sole parish of the municipality is also named Porto Santo. The population in 2011 was 5,483, in an area of 42.59 km2. The main settlement on the island is Vila Baleira. Wikipedia

Connected submarine cables

Connectivity profile

From Porto Santo, 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 Porto Santo, 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

• CAM Ring (2003) — CAM Ring is a submarine cable system operating within Portugal, with landing points at Funchal, Ponta Delgada, Porto Santo. It provides dedicated submarine fiber capacity between these locations, supporting telecommunications, internet access, and enterprise connectivity. Read more →

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