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Ranked shortlist · 10 of 54 parks

Best parks in Rio de Janeiro

The 10 most notable parks 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.

  1. 1

    Parque Natural Municipal da Cidade

    Est. Santa Marinha, 505

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.548, percentile 100 of 54

  2. 2

    Parque do Martelo

    Rua Miguel Pereira, 41

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.545, percentile 98.11 of 54

  3. 3

    Parque das Ruínas

    R. Murtinho Nobre, 169

    635 m from Glória, metro

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.528, percentile 96.23 of 54

  4. 4

    Parque Estadual do Grajaú

    Rua Comendador Martinelli, 740

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.509, percentile 94.34 of 54

  5. 5

    Parque Eduardo Guinle

    R. Paulo César de Andrade, s/n

    464 m from Largo do Machado, metro

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.480, percentile 92.45 of 54

  6. 6

    Hidrovida Atividades Aquáticas

    Avenida Padre Leonel Franca, 110

    403 m from Gávea, metro

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.464, percentile 90.57 of 54

  7. 7

    Parque da Cidade Niteroi

    Estr. Viracao, s/n

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 2.367, percentile 88.68 of 54

  8. 8

    Lagoa Aventuras

    Parque Natural Municipal da Catacumba - Av. Epitácio Pessoa, 3.000

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 2.367, percentile 86.79 of 54

  9. 9

    Machado De Assis Park

    R. do Pinto, 100

    644 m from Praia Formosa, rail

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.96 · rank score 2.298, percentile 84.91 of 54

  10. 10

    Praça Passeio Público

    288 m from Cinelândia, metro

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website and a phone · Overture confidence 0.96 · rank score 2.279, percentile 83.02 of 54

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).