He was known as Huguet del Villar. When he was young he travelled around Latin America, when he came back, in 1900, he started his geographic and naturalist studies. 

Jaume Porta Casanellas (Barcelona, 1944 – Lleida, 2023) was one of the leading driving forces behind soil science in Catalonia and an internationally recognised figure in the field of soli edaphology. An agricultural engineer trained at the Polytechnic University of Madrid, he specialised in soil studies under the guidance of Carlos Roquero, with whom he shared an applied and integrated vision of the discipline.