Puerto Cabello, Venezuela

Puerto Cabello, Venezuela is a submarine cable landing point in Venezuela (coordinates 10.4781°, -68.0096°). It serves 1 submarine cable system, making it a single-cable landing in Venezuela's international connectivity infrastructure.

Puerto Cabello is a city on the north coast of Venezuela. It is located in Carabobo State, about 210 km west of Caracas. As of 2011, the city had a population of around 182,400. The city is home to the largest and busiest port in the country and is thus a vital cog in the country's vast oil industry. The word 'cabello' translates to 'hair'. The Spanish took to saying that the sea was so calm there that a ship could be moored to the dock with a single hair. Wikipedia

Connected submarine cables

Connectivity profile

From Puerto Cabello, Venezuela, international traffic can reach 1 countries through 1 cable system. Destinations include Venezuela. 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 Puerto Cabello, Venezuela 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

• Venezuelan Festoon (1998) — Venezuelan Festoon is a domestic submarine cable network within Venezuela, connecting 12 coastal and island locations including Cabimas, Camuri, Carúpano, Chichiriviche, Coro, and 7 more. The system provides essential telecommunications infrastructure for communities that would otherwise depend entirely on satellite or microwave links. Read more →

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