title: Miguel Ángel Troitiño
text: # 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 Manuel de Terán Álvarez [es]. 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 [es], 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.
  
  