Landing Point · GT Guatemala
| Cable | Status |
|---|---|
| America Movil Submarine Cable System-1 (AMX-1) | Active |
| ARCOS | Active |
| South America-1 (SAm-1) | Active |
| TAM-1 | Active |
| TIKAL-AMX3 | Active |
RTT measurements to this landing point from 2026-03-28 through 2026-06-03 — live ICMP round-trip time via RIPE Atlas probes. Recomputed daily. ✓ No anomalies detected in the monitored period.
| Probe | Location | Samples | Avg |
|---|---|---|---|
| #4429 | RIPE Atlas | 380 | 306.6 ms |
| #6681 | RIPE Atlas | 214 | 278.0 ms |
| #329 | RIPE Atlas | 178 | 222.6 ms |
| #6982 | RIPE Atlas | 158 | 260.9 ms |
| #6639 | RIPE Atlas | 143 | 272.7 ms |
| #55079 | RIPE Atlas | 119 | 228.7 ms |
| #65614 | RIPE Atlas | 117 | 288.1 ms |
| #1033 | RIPE Atlas | 84 | 267.2 ms |
| #53346 | RIPE Atlas | 84 | 64.9 ms |
| #12441 | RIPE Atlas | 58 | 299.1 ms |
| #10515 | RIPE Atlas | 55 | 59.9 ms |
| #7007 | RIPE Atlas | 53 | 286.7 ms |
| #33838 | RIPE Atlas | 47 | 347.6 ms |
| #7102 | RIPE Atlas | 31 | 277.2 ms |
| #1012403 | RIPE Atlas | 15 | 33.7 ms |
| #61129 | RIPE Atlas | 13 | 201.2 ms |
| #7126 | RIPE Atlas | 11 | 359.6 ms |
| #1014589 own probe | Almaty KZ | 11 | 285.3 ms |
| #1014597 own probe | Tbilisi GE | 11 | 210.1 ms |
| #1014473 own probe | Minsk BY | 10 | 188.8 ms |
Puerto Barrios is a city in Guatemala situated on the Bahía de Amatique within the Gulf of Honduras, on the country's Caribbean coast. As a submarine cable landing point, it connects Guatemala to a wide set of international cable systems spanning the Atlantic and Pacific corridors. Five submarine cables land at Puerto Barrios, making it the dominant cable landing point in the country and a significant node in the Caribbean and wider Americas submarine cable network.
The cables landing here serve a range of geographical corridors, from intra-Caribbean and Central American regional links to intercontinental connections reaching South America and beyond. Among the most notable systems are the America Movil Submarine Cable System-1 (AMX-1), a 17,800 km cable connecting Guatemala to Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, and the United States, and South America-1 (SAm-1), a 25,000 km system reaching Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, and Ecuador. Together these two cables alone place Puerto Barrios at the junction of Central American, Caribbean, and South American connectivity.
South America-1 (SAm-1) is a 25,000 km submarine cable system that became ready for service in 2001. In addition to Puerto Barrios, it connects Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, and Ecuador, providing a long-haul intercontinental corridor between Central America and the southern cone of South America.
America Movil Submarine Cable System-1 (AMX-1) is a 17,800 km cable system that entered service in 2014. It links Puerto Barrios with Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, and the United States, spanning both Atlantic and Pacific reaches of the Americas region.
ARCOS is an 8,704 km cable that became ready for service in 2001. It connects Puerto Barrios to the Bahamas, Belize, Colombia, Costa Rica, Curaçao, and the Dominican Republic, forming a Caribbean-focused regional ring that ties together island and mainland territories across the sea.
TAM-1 is a 7,200 km cable with a ready-for-service date of 2026. It links Puerto Barrios with Colombia, Costa Rica, Honduras, Mexico, Panama, and the United States, representing a newer Central American and North American corridor under development.
TIKAL-AMX3 is a 1,935 km cable also scheduled for service in 2026. It connects Puerto Barrios with Mexico and the United States, offering a shorter regional link focused on North and Central American connectivity.
Guatemala has two submarine cable landing points, with Puerto Barrios hosting five of the country's six cables and Puerto San José on the Pacific coast hosting two. Puerto Barrios is by far the more active landing point in terms of the number of cable systems and the geographic reach they collectively provide. The country's first cable landings both occurred in 2001, and Puerto Barrios has been a part of Guatemala's submarine cable infrastructure from that founding year.
Puerto Barrios functions as a multi-cable hub on Guatemala's Caribbean coast, anchoring connections that run northward to Mexico and the United States, eastward across the Caribbean to island nations and Colombia, and southward along both Atlantic and Pacific coasts of South America. The five cables landing here span routes from short regional hops of under 2,000 km to intercontinental systems exceeding 25,000 km, reflecting the breadth of the corridors that converge at this point. Two of the five cables, TAM-1 and TIKAL-AMX3, are slated to enter service in 2026, indicating that the infrastructure at Puerto Barrios is actively expanding rather than static.
Within the Caribbean and Americas submarine cable graph, Puerto Barrios stands as the single largest concentration of cable landings in Guatemala and one of the more connected points on the Central American Caribbean coast, linking the country simultaneously into Caribbean island networks, South American long-haul routes, and North American systems.
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