Born in the city of Gavà, Solé's family moved to Lleida when he was still young.
In 1926, he met Pau Vila, through whom he discovered geography, and graduated from the University of Barcelona in Natural Sciences three years later.
Solé devoted his life to teaching, and after the Spanish Civil War, he became chair of Physical Geography at the University of Granada.
In 1943, he became a faculty member of the University of Barcelona, where he was the Professor who led the department of Geography.
[1] He established the university's branch of the Center for Advanced Scientific Research (CSIC) and the Institute of the Pyrenees.