Miguel Ángel Troitiño

Born in El Arenal, province of Ávila, Spain, in 1947, Troitiño earned a licentiate degree in Geography and History from the UCM.^[2] He obtained a PhD in Geography in 1979 from the UCM,^[3] reading a dissertation on the city of Cuenca,^[4] titled Cuenca, la crisis de una vieja ciudad castellana^[5] and supervised by Manuel de Terán Álvarez [es]. A lecturer at the UCM since 1973,^[3] he obtained a Chair of Human Geography in 1991.^[6]

During his career, he focused on fields such as tourism, cultural heritage, urban planning and territorial development.^[2] A great deal of his scholar production dealt with the city of Cuenca.^[6] A member of the Institución Gran Duque de Alba [es], he also worked on the strategy for territorial sustainable development for the Tiétar Valley,^[2] in his native province.

He died from COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain on 21 April 2020.^[2][6]