Tambo River
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- For a river in Australia, see Tambo River (Victoria).
Tambo is a Peruvian river on the eastern slopes of the South American Andes.
Río Tambo is part of the headwaters of the Amazon River whose origin is the Apúrimac River at Nevado Mismi and which becomes Ene River before its waters form the Tambo River.
Río Tambo is formed at at the confluence of Perené River and Ene River, at the town of Puerto Prado, 400 m above sea level.
The river flows 70 km in an easterly direction southeast of Gran Pajonal and then another north, its total length being 159 km.
At Río Tambo joins Urubamba River, at the town of Atalaya, 287 m above sea level, and is called Río Ucayali from then on.
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