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Charcoal burning was a common activity in the mountains of Jaén. The wood of holm and gall oaks was the raw material the mountain people used to make charcoal, which made the hard winters more bearable. The Quejigo del Amo, also known as the Quejigo del Carbón, is living proof of that activity. Its scars, and above all the difference in thickness between its branches and its enormous trunk, are clear evidence of the pruning it underwent to produce charcoal. This majestic tree, estimated to be between 500 and 1,000 years old, is one of the largest gall oaks in all of Andalusia.