This article intends to describe the process by which the revolt known as Balaiada was pacified and, doing so, to show how the "speech of order" was inscribed in the territory of Maranhão. The concept of territory aggregates processes that belong to the field of politics. It includes the relation of a society to a given space. From this notion comes the idea of a "cartography of pacification". By sending troops to Maranhão, the government created networks of domination and circuits of exploration that sustained the submission of this territory to the Brazilian Empire.
empire; cartography of pacification; Balaiada; conservative policie.