Fillos de Galicia
Encyclopedia
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 descendants 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.
, with sizable populations in Spain
and Brazil
. 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, 60 are paying members called socios.
During the previous year, there were 339,499 visits to the website. An average of 1,499,516 individual pages were visited each month, coming from 29,000 visits per month.
Web portal
A web portal or links page is a web site that functions as a point of access to information in the World Wide Web. A portal presents information from diverse sources in a unified way....
and virtual community
Virtual community
A virtual community is a social network of individuals who interact through specific media, potentially crossing geographical and political boundaries in order to pursue mutual interests or goals...
which focuses on Galician culture and diaspora. The site focuses on promoting unity between Galicians
Galician people
The Galicians are an ethnic group, a nationality whose historical homeland is Galicia in north-western Spain. Most Galicians are bilingual, speaking both their historic language, Galician, and Castilian Spanish.-Political and administrative divisions:...
and descendants of Galicians around the world. The community is a hub where many objectives can be accomplished, such as learning more about the Galician language
Galician language
Galician is a language of the Western Ibero-Romance branch, spoken in Galicia, an autonomous community located in northwestern Spain, where it is co-official with Castilian Spanish, as well as in border zones of the neighbouring territories of Asturias and Castile and León.Modern Galician and...
or finding relatives in Galicia using the Atopadoiro. Fillos.org is one of the most popular websites regarding Galicia and more specifically the diaspora.
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 supporting Association has also spawned a few sister sites dealing with specific themes relating to Galicians (see External Links below).Statistics
As of 2010, there are more than 6700 unique users registered with the community, residing in over 70 countries. The bulk of the users are between the ages of 30 and 60. Over 1500 of the users live in ArgentinaArgentina
Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...
, with sizable populations in Spain
Spain
Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...
and Brazil
Brazil
Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...
. 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, 60 are paying members called socios.
During the previous year, there were 339,499 visits to the website. An average of 1,499,516 individual pages were visited each month, coming from 29,000 visits per month.
External links
- eTIqueTAL (tagging-based social networking service)
- Debulla (social bookmarking)
- Nomes galegos (categorization of traditional Galician names)
- 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 PrestigePrestige oil spillThe Prestige oil spill was an oil spill off the coast of Galicia caused by the sinking of an oil tanker in 2002. The spill polluted thousands of kilometers of coastline and more than one thousand beaches on the Spanish, French and Portuguese coast, as well as causing great harm to the local fishing...
ecological disaster) - Parcelaria Virtual pola Cultura Galega (Fund-raising & net.artNet.art"net.art" refers to a group of artists who worked in the medium of Internet art from 1994. The main members of this movement are Vuk Ćosić, Jodi.org, Alexei Shulgin, Olia Lialina, and Heath Bunting...
project)