How many of the drowned man's admirable qualities are real, and how many are made up by the townspeople?

Almost all of the drowned man's admirable qualities in "The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World" are made up by the townspeople. The only thing they know for sure about him is that he is "much bigger than any other man, for he hardly fit in the house" (Marquez, 1) and that "he was the tallest, strongest, most virile and best-equipped man they had ever seen" (Marquez, 1).
The rest of the qualities that the townspeople bestow on the drowned man are characteristics that they dream up until they admire him beyond reason. They imagine his enormous house to fit his gigantic frame and how grand and dignified it must have been (Marquez, 2). They dream up that "he would have had such authority that he could have taken the fish from the sea by only calling them by name" (Marquez, 2) and that "he would have brought forth springs from between the driest rocks and would have been able to sow flowers on the cliffs" (Marquez, 2). They even make up a name for him and decide that he is called Esteban (Marquez, 2).
Due to "Esteban's" enormous size, the women soon start to imagine how he must have been in life. "They saw him condemned in life to pass sideways through doors, splitting his head open on the crossbeams" (Marquez, 2), and they imagine that he must have been humble and embarrassed by his size so that he would "remain standing during visits without knowing what to do with his tender, red hands, while the woman of the house searched for the most resistant chair" (Marquez, 2).