Landing Point · CL Chile
| Cable | Status |
|---|---|
| Fibra Optica Austral | Active |
RTT measurements to this landing point from 2026-05-13 through 2026-06-01 — live ICMP round-trip time via RIPE Atlas probes. Recomputed daily. ✓ No anomalies detected in the monitored period.
| Probe | Location | Samples | Avg |
|---|---|---|---|
| #1014589 own probe | Almaty KZ | 3 | 319.9 ms |
| #1015523 own probe | Moscow RU | 3 | 259.9 ms |
| #1014473 own probe | Minsk BY | 2 | 270.4 ms |
| #1014597 own probe | Tbilisi GE | 2 | 300.3 ms |
| #1014969 own probe | Jerusalem IL | 2 | 266.4 ms |
| #6410 own probe | Sao Paulo BR | 1 | 53.0 ms |
| #6427 own probe | Sydney AU | 1 | 344.9 ms |
| #7062 own probe | Cape Town ZA | 1 | 348.3 ms |
Tortel is a commune in the Aysén Region of southern Chile, situated at the outflow of the Baker and Pascua rivers to the Pacific Ocean, between the Northern and Southern Patagonian Ice Fields in Capitán Prat Province. Its principal settlement, Caleta Tortel, lies in one of the most remote stretches of the Chilean coast. One submarine cable lands at Tortel, connecting it to Chile's growing domestic fiber optic network.
The single cable serving Tortel is the Fibra Optica Austral, a domestic Chilean cable that links this isolated Patagonian locality with other points along Chile's extended coastline. Its presence here reflects an effort to extend high-capacity connectivity to communities in Chile's far south that are otherwise difficult to reach by land-based infrastructure.
The Fibra Optica Austral is a submarine cable spanning approximately 2,800 kilometers, with a ready-for-service (RFS) date of 2020, listed at draft status. The cable is an entirely domestic Chilean system, with all of its other landing points also located within Chile. At 2,800 kilometers, it is considerably shorter than the average submarine cable landing in Chile, which stands at approximately 6,168 kilometers, reflecting its regional rather than intercontinental scope. The Fibra Optica Austral is designed to serve communities along Chile's southern corridor, making Tortel one of the more remote termination points on the system.
Among Chile's 19 submarine cable landing points, Tortel hosts one cable, placing it alongside Antofagasta, Caldera, and Cartagena as single-cable landing points, and well behind larger hubs such as Valparaíso, which hosts six cables, and Arica, which hosts three. Tortel's nearest multi-cable peer in geographic terms is Puerto Montt, which serves two cables further to the north. Tortel thus represents one of the more modestly served landing points in Chile's national submarine cable landscape.
Tortel functions as a domestic terminus on the Fibra Optica Austral, a cable that operates entirely within Chile and provides connectivity along a southern coastal corridor. As a single-cable landing point, it does not serve as a hub for onward international routing, but instead provides a direct submarine link to other Chilean communities in a region where terrestrial alternatives are severely limited by geography. The Fibra Optica Austral's reach into Tortel represents an extension of Chile's domestic submarine network into Patagonia, a coastline characterized by fjords and ice fields that complicate conventional land-based cabling.
In the broader Chilean submarine cable graph, Tortel occupies a terminal position—a single endpoint on a regional domestic system rather than a junction between multiple cables or international routes. Its significance lies in the geographic difficulty of the territory it serves, placing submarine connectivity among the few practical options for integrating this part of Patagonia into Chile's national digital network.
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