Point d'atterrissage · CV Cape Verde
Praia, Cape Verde is one of the most connected submarine cable landing points in Cape Verde. 5 international cable systems come ashore here, and together they reach 17 other countries across South America, Africa and Europe.
Praia is the capital and largest city of Cape Verde. Its 5 systems give Praia direct international reach to Brazil, French Guiana, Morocco and Mauritania and beyond (17 countries in all), the role that justified building international cable here rather than routing through an inland neighbour.
The roster spans 26 years of build-out, from Cabo Verde Telecom Domestic Submarine Cable Phase 1 (1997) to Senegal Horn of Africa Regional Express (SHARE) Cable (2023). Documented capacity and vintage vary across the roster: Cabo Verde Telecom Domestic Submarine Cable Phase 1 (in service since 1997), Cabo Verde Telecom Domestic Submarine Cable Phase 3 (in service since 2011), EllaLink (6,200 km, in service since 2021 and 100 Tbps), Senegal Horn of Africa Regional Express (SHARE) Cable (720 km and in service since 2023) and West Africa Cable System (WACS) (14,530 km and in service since 2012). Facts for every system are on its own cable page.
With 5 independent systems, Cape Verde has real redundancy through this point: no single cable cut isolates it from the destinations they share. The exposure is specific: the link to South America rests on a single cable, with no sibling landing alongside it. Because these systems share the same short stretch of coast and shore infrastructure, a localized event at the landing zone can reach far more capacity than the cable count alone suggests. GeoCables tracks each of these systems individually for exactly this reason.
GeoCables watches these systems continuously rather than describing them once. Since 2026-03-10 we have logged 122 route anomalies across 68 cable systems worldwide. One has touched this location's own cables: a 237% round-trip latency spike on West Africa Cable System (WACS) (2026-06-16, recovered by 2026-06-16). These were latency events on the systems' wider routes, not outages at the landing itself, and they cleared on their own. This record grows as we detect more, which is the difference between a directory entry and a monitored asset.
The largest access networks in Cape Verde sit behind this coastal capacity: CABO VERDE TELECOM, S.A (75.7% of users), UNITEL T+ Telecomunicacoes, Sociedade Unipessoal, S.A. (19.2% of users) and Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (13.9% of users). See the full national picture for Cape Verde.
In short, Praia, Cape Verde carries international traffic for Cape Verde across 5 independent cable systems reaching 17 countries on 3 continents, and GeoCables monitors each of them in real time.
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