Praia Grande, Brazil

Praia Grande, Brazil is a submarine cable landing point in Brazil (coordinates -24.0089°, -46.4125°). It serves 3 submarine cable systems, making it a multi-cable landing site in Brazil's international connectivity infrastructure.

Praia Grande is a municipality in the Baixada Santista Metropolitan Region, on the southern coast of the Brazilian state of São Paulo. It is part of the Immediate Region of Santos and its population measured in the IBGE census review in 2010 was 262,051 inhabitants. In the 2022 IBGE census, the population of Praia Grande was 349,935 inhabitants, being the city in Baixada Santista that grew the most in the period 2010–2022. It is the second most populous city on the coast of São Paulo, after only Santos. With an area of 149.652 km², the population density in 2022 was 2,338.32 inhabitants/km². The municipality is formed by the headquarters and the district of Solemar. Wikipedia

Connected submarine cables

Operators landing at Praia Grande, Brazil

Cables landing at Praia Grande, Brazil are operated by 5 distinct consortium partners and carriers, including Google, Meta, Seaborn Networks, Sparkle, V.tal. Each cable is typically jointly owned by a consortium of tier-one carriers and hyperscale operators who share construction costs and capacity; the operator mix reflects both regional incumbents and global players with interest in the routes served by this landing point.

Connectivity profile

From Praia Grande, Brazil, international traffic can reach 4 countries through 3 cable systems. Destinations include Argentina, Brazil, United States, Uruguay.

Monitoring status

GeoCables recorded 1 monitoring event on cables serving Praia Grande, Brazil in the past 90 days. Our monitoring network continuously samples latency from external probes to targets reachable via these cables.

About the cables

• Firmina (2026) — Firmina is a cross-regional submarine cable connecting Argentina, United States, Brazil, Uruguay. Its 4 landing points at Las Toninas, Myrtle Beach, Praia Grande, Punta del Este bridge the networks of South America, North America, providing an important path for international data traffic. Read more →
• 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 →
• Seabras-1 (2017) — Seabras-1 is a point-to-point submarine cable linking Brazil and United States. Landing at Praia Grande, Wall Township, 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.