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Ranked shortlist · 10 of 64 complementary and alternative medicine
Best complementary and alternative medicine in Rio de Janeiro
The 10 most notable complementary and alternative medicine in Rio de Janeiro, in rank order. The order is curation quality — how well attested and how complete each record is — not popularity, and no place on this list paid to be on it.
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1
Cerva & Cia
Galeria Dark, Av. Treze de Maio, 23 - Lj N
239 m from Cinelândia, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.313, percentile 100 of 64
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2
Juliana Piva Chiropractic
Pr. Saenz Peña, 55 - 408
83 m from Sáenz Peña, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.291, percentile 98.41 of 64
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3
Clínica de Ayurveda
Centro Médico Barão de Lucena, R. Barão de Lucena, 48 - Sl 17
398 m from Botafogo, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.285, percentile 96.83 of 64
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4
Clínica Nova Coluna
Av. Alm. Barroso, 63 - 702
359 m from Cinelândia, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.269, percentile 95.24 of 64
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5
Studio Jun
Av. Nossa Sra. de Copacabana, 1018 - sala 1103
355 m from Cantagalo Station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.256, percentile 93.65 of 64
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Espaço Novo Arte e Terapias
R. Pereira Nunes, 94
522 m from Sáenz Peña, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.251, percentile 92.06 of 64
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Acupuntura Center
R. General Polidoro, 20 - D
277 m from Botafogo, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.249, percentile 90.48 of 64
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Instituto de Acupuntura do Rio de Janeiro
Tv. Pepe, 86
446 m from Botafogo, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.248, percentile 88.89 of 64
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Clínica Corpo e Voz
R. Uruguai, 247 - loja A
676 m from Uruguai / Tijuca, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.237, percentile 87.3 of 64
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10
Terapyativa Pilates e Saúde
Av. Armando Lombardi, 205 - Sl 201
624 m from Jardim Oceânico Station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.235, percentile 85.71 of 64
How this list is made
Every place in this group was scored by the same model, with each term z-normalised inside the group and capped, so a famous chain cannot win by being famous everywhere. The weights, verbatim:
- attestation by independent providers
- +0.35
- record completeness (website, phone, address)
- +0.25
- Overture existence confidence
- +0.20
- Michelin designation (Wikidata, CC0)
- +0.40
- brand fame (Wikidata sitelinks)
- −0.15
- same-name chain collision
- −0.30
Curation quality, not popularity: how well attested and how complete a record is.
No licensable popularity signal; this ranks curation quality, not taste
Independent check: 5,951 places listed in Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0; validation only, never published or scored) were matched to our records by name within 250 m. Across the 5,651 that fall in groups of at least 10, the median matched place sits at percentile 73 and 24.2% are in the top decile, against 10% by chance; five families have enough anchors to report (arts, food and drink, lodging, shopping, sport), while health care (5), lifestyle services (17), travel (26) have too few and are not validated. A match needs both the guide and the catalogue to name the same place, which favours well-attested places — a term this rank itself rewards — so these are lower bounds; Michelin's 528 in-group anchors have a median percentile of 100, but that is partly circular: across the Wikivoyage matches, the 17 that also carry the designation term this rank scores sit at 99.93, against 72.55 for the 5,934 without it.
The catalogue carries no rating, review count, price or opening hours, so this file has none.
Station locations from Wikidata (CC0-1.0). Nearest station, not service: no frequency, timetable or departures.
Nobody paid for placement: no ads, no sponsored results, no ratings for sale.
Data: AllThePlaces (CC0-1.0), BrightQuery (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), DAC (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Foursquare Open Source Places (Apache-2.0), Meta (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Microsoft (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), PinMeTo (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), RenderSEO (CDLA-Permissive-2.0).