Capyama is a woman of the Yampilla people whom the Concha water god Collquiri saw from afar and desired. To win her he travelled underground as flowing water and emerged near her home to court her; her family gave her in marriage, and the union joined the two communities. Through her marriage the sharing of the lake's water and the obligations of maintaining its outlet were established between the groups. She appears as the human partner of a willful water deity, and her story, like that of Chuquisuso, ties a marriage between mortal woman and huaca to the practical order of irrigation on which the highland ayllus depended.