Today I’ve been reading news about spanish speaking communities and I had the idea to make a small research about them. There is a more complete list in Loogic rank. I start the small list with the proffesional networks and then I follow with the rest.

(IN TRANSLATION PROCESS)

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  Neurona.com Bought by Xing
  Users: 650.000
  Active users: 75.000 (via Marqueze )
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  Econozco.com Also bought by Xing
  Active users: 30.000“With almost 150.000 users, this network has achieved a critical userbase that allows an optimum viral growth, by user recommendations. Another fundamental advantage is that this network is in spanish that is one of the most important languages in the world speaken by more than 400 millon people and the second language in importance”. ( Lars Hinrich Xing’s Ceo ) Note: I translated this text from a spanish document so there may be not the exact words that Lars said.
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  Xing.com with this 2 adquisitions should be the most big professional latin speaking networks. From the sources I researched, Xing has 2 millon users globally in more than 15 different languages.
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  Infojobs. This network is a very important one for me because thanks to this network I found my work in Spain. It’s the first pro-network I was aware of when I was living in Argentina and almost all my friends wanted to leave the country.
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  Linkedin, even that is in english, has a important amount of spanish users.
  65.000 active spanish users
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  Viadeo recently entered the spanish market. Viadeo has a French origin and I still didn’t researched about this one.
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  bitacoras.com
  Is the bigger bloggers social network of the latin market.
  Is born in 2002 created by Jose Luis Perdomo
  250.000 users

Lately I see there is a growing interest in the communites ala “social web” in Spanish.