Miguel Ángel Troitiño
Miguel Ángel Troitiño Vinuesa (1947 – 2020) was a Spanish geographer, professor of human geography at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM). He was an expert in cultural tourism and heritage preservation. Biography. Born in El Arenal, province of Ávila, Spain, 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 . 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 , he also worked on the strategy for territorial sustainable development for the Tiétar Valley, in his native province. He died from COVID-19 duringbthe COVID-19 pandemic in Spain on 21 April 2020.