Santa Marta, Colombia

Santa Marta, Colombia is a submarine cable landing point in Colombia (coordinates 11.2420°, -74.2053°). It serves 1 submarine cable system, making it a single-cable landing in Colombia's international connectivity infrastructure.

Santa Marta, officially the Distrito Turístico, Cultural e Histórico de Santa Marta, is a port city on the coast of the Caribbean Sea in northern Colombia. It is the capital of Magdalena Department and the fourth-largest urban city of the Caribbean Region of Colombia, after Barranquilla, Cartagena, and Soledad. Founded on July 29, 1525, by the Spanish conqueror Rodrigo de Bastidas, it was one of the first Spanish settlements in Colombia, its oldest surviving city, and second-oldest in South America. This city is situated on a bay by the same name and as such, it is a prime tourist destination in the Caribbean region. Wikipedia

Connected submarine cables

Connectivity profile

From Santa Marta, Colombia, international traffic can reach 1 countries through 1 cable system. Destinations include Colombia. 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 Santa Marta, Colombia 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

• Colombian Festoon (1997) — Colombian Festoon is a domestic submarine cable system within Colombia, linking 5 landing points including Cartagena, Colombia, Parque Isla de Salamanca, Colombia, Puerto Colombia, Colombia, Santa Marta, Colombia and others. It strengthens domestic network resilience in Colombia by providing submarine connectivity between coastal and island communities. Read more →

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