Miguel Ángel Troitiño Vinuesa a Spanish geographer, professor of human geography at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) died of COVID-19 on 21 April 2020.
He was an expert in cultural tourism and heritage preservation.
Born in El Arenal, province of Ávila in 1947, Troitiño earned a licentiate degree in Geography and History from the UCM.
He obtained a PhD in Geography in 1979 from the UCM, reading a dissertation on the city of Cuenca, titled Cuenca, la crisis de una vieja ciudad castellana and supervised by Manuel de Terán Álvarez. A lecturer at the UCM since 1973, he obtained a Chair of Human Geography in 1991.
During his career, he focused on fields such as tourism, cultural heritage, urban planning and territorial development. A great deal of his scholar production dealt with the city of Cuenca. A member of the Institución Gran Duque de Alba, he also worked on the strategy for territorial sustainable development for the Tiétar Valley, in his native province.