THE "COLORADO" HILL
It is said that a long time ago Esteco was a very big and rich city. San Francisco Solano walked of missionary and he had arrived to Esteco. It is also said that as people of Esteco was so bad and proud, God. had sent them a great sleeve of lobsters so that they eat everything to make realize people that that was a punishment of God. And it has been this way. And it is also believed that overnight, a lobster sleeve has covered completely everything, everything was red. The trees, the grasses, the fields, everything was covered by the lobsters.
They say that from a distance the lobsters came in a cloud and in the sun they had covered it almost completely. The animals left the place afraid and they didn't have neither a plant to eat. It is said, that people had seen that they all will die, of hunger. It is also said, that the rivers and the streams were also full with lobsters. All the people were very afraid and they didn't know what to do.
San Francisco seeing that it was a punishment of God, has sympathized with all yhe people, and has requested to God that gave him the power to be able to save them. And he promised people to save them. And has said:
- Oakey, sons, I will make something on behalf of God to save to this town so without charity.
It is said say that he has gone on the town. Some humble and simple people have gone with him, because they didn't think that this missionary could save them of this calamity so big. They have arrived and San Francisco has made them to join him some lobsters.He, in the name of the God ordered them, to take to all the great lobsters of that great one to a hill, that near there, they could see. It is said too that the people has released the plotted lobsters in the hill and like if it is where thing of God, they have seen that the great one great of lobster it continued of behind to the plotted lobsters.
They say that they flew bound for the hill. And that the sun of so many lobsters was darkened that went in the air. And the miracle that San Francisco had said, ocurred. And it is said that they have seen that the lobsters covered the hill of that color and from then on this has been called the "Colorado" hill. It is located in the direction of the antiquity city of Esteco that collapsed for punishment of the God, because this people have not been wanted to amend of their wickedness.
And it is also said that this way had been, for that reason it is so red that hill of Salta. -