Maragato (Brazil)

Gumercindo Saraiva was the main leader of the Federalists.

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Maragato is a name given in Brazil to those who initiated the Federalist Revolution (1893-1895) in protest against the federal government represented in the state of Rio Grande do Sul by Júlio Prates de Castilhos.

They wore red neckerchiefs for identification. The name Maragato (originally pejorative, then embraced by the rebels themselves) came from the fact that their leaders had been in exile in a region of Uruguay heavily populated by emigrants from La Maragatería in Spain.^[1]

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