Vila do Porto, Portugal

Vila do Porto, Portugal is a submarine cable landing point in Portugal (coordinates 36.9568°, -25.1413°). It serves 1 submarine cable system, making it a single-cable landing in Portugal's international connectivity infrastructure.

Vila do Porto is the single municipality, the name of the main town and one of the civil parishes on the island of Santa Maria, in the Portuguese archipelago of Azores. Its nearest neighbor, administratively, is the municipality of Povoação on the southern coast of São Miguel, and it is physically southwest of the islets of the Formigas. The population in 2021 was 5,408, in an area of 96.89 km2 (37.41 sq mi). Wikipedia

Connected submarine cables

Connectivity profile

From Vila do Porto, Portugal, international traffic can reach 1 countries through 1 cable system. Destinations include Portugal. 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 Vila do Porto, Portugal 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

• Azores Fiber Optic System (AFOS) (1998) — Azores Fiber Optic System (AFOS) is a domestic submarine cable system within Portugal, linking 7 landing points including Angra do Heroismo, Portugal, Faial, Portugal, Graciosa, Portugal, Ponta Delgada, Portugal and others. It strengthens domestic network resilience in Portugal 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.