Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Islands

Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Islands is a submarine cable landing point in Turks and Caicos Islands (coordinates 21.8511°, -72.1202°). It serves 1 submarine cable system, making it a single-cable landing in Turks and Caicos Islands's international connectivity infrastructure.

Providenciales is an island in the northwest Caicos Islands, part of the Turks and Caicos Islands, a British Overseas Territory. The island has an area of 98 km2 (38 mi2) and had a population of 23,769 as of 2012, the latest date for which an island-by-island census was published by the government. Providenciales is the third largest island in the Turks and Caicos in area, and is home to a majority of the population of the Turks and Caicos Islands. Wikipedia

Connected submarine cables

Connectivity profile

From Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Islands, international traffic can reach 13 countries through 1 cable system. Destinations include Bahamas, Belize, Colombia, Costa Rica, Curaçao, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Honduras and 5 more. 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 Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Islands 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

• ARCOS (2001) — ARCOS is a major intercontinental submarine cable system spanning 14 countries across Central America, South America, North America. With 24 landing points — including Belize City, Bluefields, Cancún, Cartagena, Cat Island, and 19 more — it forms one of the backbone links carrying international internet traffic between continents. Read more →

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