It is counted that many years ago in the place where now the lake of Santa Maria del Oro, Nayarit, there was a very pretty town. In that town there were two lovers that they had pain because the dad did not accept to boyfriend of the girl due to that the youth was poor. But he was also the leader of an army and a day he decided to steal it to him and they were themselves by the mountains

The dad very displeased sought them to finding them and then he sent that they hitched them to some trunks that put in the higher of each one of the two hills that were near the town. There the two they were crying for days and days and with its tears they flooded the town; with its tears was formed a very beautiful and very blue lake: the lake of santa Maria del Oro.