Puerto Cortes, Honduras

Puerto Cortes, Honduras is a submarine cable landing point in Honduras (coordinates 15.8452°, -87.9462°). It serves 3 submarine cable systems, making it a multi-cable landing site in Honduras's international connectivity infrastructure.

Puerto Cortés, originally known as Puerto de Caballos, is a port city and municipality on the north Caribbean coast of Honduras, right on the Laguna de Alvarado, north of San Pedro Sula and east of Omoa, with a natural bay. The present city was founded in the early colonial period. It grew rapidly in the twentieth century, thanks to the then railroad, and banana production. In terms of volume of traffic the seaport is the largest in Central America and the 36th largest in the world. The city of Puerto Cortés has a population of 73,150. Wikipedia

Connected submarine cables

Operators landing at Puerto Cortes, Honduras

Cables landing at Puerto Cortes, Honduras are operated by 21 distinct consortium partners and carriers, including AT&T, Alestra, Bahamas Telecommunications Company, Belize Telemedia, CANTV, Claro Dominicana (Codetel), Enitel, Hondutel, ICE (Kolbi), Internexa, and 11 others. 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 Puerto Cortes, Honduras, international traffic can reach 16 countries through 3 cable systems. Destinations include Bahamas, Belize, Cayman Islands, Colombia, Costa Rica, Curaçao, Dominican Republic, Guatemala and 8 more.

Monitoring status

No monitoring incidents were recorded on cables serving Puerto Cortes, Honduras 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

• TAM-1 (2026) — TAM-1 is a major intercontinental submarine cable system spanning 8 countries across South America, Central America, North America. With 10 landing points — including Barranquilla, Butler Bay, Cancún, Hollywood, Maria Chiquita, and 5 more — it forms one of the backbone links carrying international internet traffic between continents. Read more →
• 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 →
• Maya-1.2 (2000) — Maya-1.2 is a regional submarine cable serving 3 countries: Cayman Islands, United States, Honduras. With landing points at Half Moon Bay, Hollywood, Puerto Cortes, it strengthens regional internet resilience and provides route diversity — crucial when nearby cables experience faults. Read more →

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