Fillos de Galicia

URL	Fillos.org
Commercial?	No
Type of site	Web portal
Registration	Optional
Owner	Asociacion Cultural Fillos de Galicia
Created by	Asociacion Cultural Fillos de Galicia
Launched	1997

Fillos de Galicia is a web portal which focuses on Galician culture and diaspora. The site focuses on uniting descendents of Galicians and promoting unity between Galicians around the world. The community is a hub where many objectives can be accomplished, such as learning more about the Galician Language or finding relatives in Galicia using the Atopadoiro. The community is one of the most popular websites regarding Galicia and more specifically the diaspora. Uniform Resource Locator (URL) is a technical, Web-related term used in two distinct meanings: in popular usage, it is a widespread synonym for Uniform Resource Identifier (URI)—many popular and technical texts will use the term URL when referring to URI; in strict technical usage, it is a subset... 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A Web portal is a site on the World Wide Web that typically provides personalized capabilities to its visitors, providing a pathway to other content. ... Galicia (Spain) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... The Galician people (Povo Galego) is the ethnic group or nation native to the Spanish autonomous community of Galicia, in the Iberian peninsula of southwest Europe. ... Galician (Galician: galego, IPA: ) is a language of the Western Ibero-Romance branch, spoken in Galicia, an autonomous community with the constitutional status of historic nationality, located in northwestern Spain and small bordering zones in neighbouring autonomous communities of Asturias and Castilla y León. ...

History

Fillos de Galicia was started in 1997 by Manuel Casal Lodeiro, son of Galician emigrants. Since its inception, the portal has been growing at an exponential rate. The Association has also spawned a few sister sites dealing with specific themes relating to Galicians.

Statistics

As of December 2006, there are more than 4000 unique users registered with the community, residing in over 70 countries. The bulk of the users are between the ages of 30 and 60. Almost 1500 of the users live in Argentina, with sizeable populations in Spain and Brasil. Over half of the registered users are either born in Galicia or children of Galicians. Another 1200 are grandchildren of Galicians. Of all the users, 54 are paying members called socios.

During the previous year, there were 964,142 visits to the website. An average of 800,000 individual pages were visited each month, coming from 100,000 visits per month.

References

• In the news
• Statistics
• Staff
• FAQ
• Atopadoiro

External Links

• Galeguidade (web portal for Galician organizations all around the world)
• Rede Galega (Internet services for Galician nonprofits)
• Planeta Galego (Galician diaspora webzine)
• A Morte da Costa (mini-site on Prestige ecological disaster)
• Parcelaria Virtual pola Cultura Galega (Fund-raising net-art project)