 Leoncio Afonso

Leoncio Afonso Perez (12 September 1916 Breña Alta, Canary Islands – 27 March 2017 San Cristobal de la Laguna, Canary Islands) was a professor of geography and an intellectual of the Canary Islands.He made considerable contributions to the study of geography in the region, and he was bestowed an honorary doctorate from the University of La Laguna on 7 March 1997, in recognition of his life's work.