Copacati was one of the two principal wak'as of pre-Christian Copacabana on Lake Titicaca. The colonial chronicler Ramos Gavilán describes her as a stone idol of ugly form whose body was entirely bound with curled snakes, set upon a hill and beseeched for rain during droughts. Scholars read her as the personification of celestial water from Above (Hanan), the complement of the lakeside idol Copacabana who embodied the terrestrial waters from Below (Hurin); her sanctuary was later overlaid by the cult of the Virgin of Copacabana.