Tumba
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Tumba can mean:
- Lake Tumba - a lake in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Tumba - a town in Botkyrka, Sweden
- Tumba Bruk - printer of the Swedish krona banknotes, located in Tumba
- Another spelling for Thumba, India's first rocket launching site.
- Tumba - a Portuguese search engine (www.tumba.pt)
- Tumba (drum) - a rare kind of thin drum
- Tumba francesa (French tumba) is the name for a style of music brought from Haiti to Cuba following the Haitian slave rebellion of 1791.
- Tumba is a native musical form to Curaçao.
- Tumba is also the Panamanian colloquial name for a folkloric drum about 3 feet high, a foot across, mounted on a stand. It is struck with the hands.
- The tumba is the largest drum of the conga family.