The Maré Streets Guide is a set of investigative actions taken in Maré Complex (Rio de Janeiro) over 2014. This set condenses representing senses mobilized as emancipatory force, a political process conjecture by cartographic and census production as dispute procedures within precarious urban territories. The political dimension sets the central problem of this approach. This papper unfolds the question that opens the guide: “What does it mean for the Maré be part of the Rio de Janeiro’s mapping?”. It points to the notion of writing as recognition, visibility and presence. A type mapping against the grain, a political mobilization that demands social, territorial and cultural existences deliberately discarded by cartographic exercise that embarrassing otherness territory.