Trujillo, Honduras

Trujillo, Honduras: Submarine Cable Landing Point

Trujillo is a city on the northern Caribbean coast of Honduras, situated in the department of Colón, of which it serves as the capital. Its position along the Caribbean shore places it within reach of the submarine cable routes that traverse the wider Caribbean Basin and connect Central America to South America and the island nations of the Caribbean Sea. One submarine cable lands at Trujillo, making it one of three submarine cable landing points in Honduras.

The single cable serving Trujillo is ARCOS, a system that connects Honduras to a broad network of Caribbean and Central American nations. Through ARCOS, Trujillo participates in a regional corridor linking Central American countries such as Belize and Costa Rica with Caribbean island territories including the Bahamas, Curaçao, and the Dominican Republic, as well as reaching South America via Colombia. This gives Trujillo a meaningful place within a multi-country submarine cable network spanning the Caribbean corridor.

Cables Landing at Trujillo, Honduras

ARCOS is an 8,704-kilometre submarine cable system that entered service in 2001. In addition to Trujillo, Honduras, ARCOS lands in the Bahamas, Belize, Colombia, Costa Rica, Curaçao, and the Dominican Republic. The system forms a ring-like structure around the Caribbean, enabling connectivity among a diverse set of countries across Central America, the Caribbean islands, and the northern coast of South America.

Regional Context

Within Honduras, Trujillo is one of three landing points for submarine cables, alongside Puerto Cortés and Puerto Lempira. Puerto Cortés hosts two cables, making it the most connected landing point in the country by cable count, while both Trujillo and Puerto Lempira each host one cable. Trujillo's single-cable status places it in the top 67 percent of Honduran landing points by cable count.

Network Role

Trujillo functions as a single-cable terminus within the Honduran submarine cable landscape, serving as the country's connection point to the ARCOS system. Through this cable, the city anchors Honduras into a broader Caribbean network that spans seven countries and more than 8,700 kilometres of submarine infrastructure. The ARCOS connection enables communications links running both north toward the Bahamas and south toward Colombia, covering a corridor that crosses two sub-regions of the Americas.

In the regional submarine cable graph, Trujillo's role as an ARCOS landing point means that Honduras maintains Caribbean-facing connectivity from two separate locations on its northern coast — Trujillo to the east and Puerto Cortés to the west — distributing the country's international submarine cable access across its Caribbean shoreline.