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Rota, Spain

Landing Point · ES Spain

1 Connected Cables 36.6263°N 6.3630°W Spain
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Connected Cables
ES
Country
36.63°
Latitude
6.36°
Longitude
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Connected Cables

Cable Length RFS Status
Canalink 1,835 km 2011 Active

About Rota, Spain

Rota, Spain is a submarine cable landing point in Spain (coordinates 36.6263°, -6.3630°). It serves 1 submarine cable system, making it a single-cable landing in Spain's international connectivity infrastructure.

Rota is a municipality and town in the Province of Cádiz, Andalusia, Spain. Its surface area is 84 km2 and is bordered by the towns of Chipiona, Sanlúcar de Barrameda and El Puerto de Santa María. It is located near the city of Jerez de la Frontera and is 36 kilometers away from the provincial capital, Cádiz. It had in the year 2009 28,516 inhabitants, with a density of 339 inhabitants / km2. It belongs to two associations, the Association of Municipalities of Cádiz Bay along with the municipalities of Cádiz, Jerez de la Frontera, El Puerto de Santa María, San Fernando, Chiclana and Puerto Real; and the Association of Municipalities of the Lower Guadalquivir that comprises municipalities of Northwest Coast of Andalusia. Wikipedia

Connected submarine cables

CableRFSLengthOwners
Canalink20111,835 kmIT3

Connectivity profile

From Rota, Spain, international traffic can reach 2 countries through 1 cable system. Destinations include Morocco, Spain. 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 Rota, Spain 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

  • Canalink (2011) — Canalink is a point-to-point submarine cable linking Morocco and Spain. Landing at Asilah, Conil de la Frontera, El Goro, Granadilla de Abona, Güimar, and 3 more, 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.

Other Landing Points in Spain

Landing Point

  • CountryES Spain
  • Coordinates36.6263°N 6.3630°W
  • Connected Cables1

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