Fillos de Galicia

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**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 and virtual community which focuses on Galician culture and diaspora. The site focuses on promoting unity between Galicians and descendents of 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. Fillos.org is one of the most popular websites regarding Galicia and more specifically the diaspora.

1 History
2 Statistics
3 References
4 External Links

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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.