Tumba

Besides Grave in Spanish, Tumba can refer to:

Places:

  • Tumba, Sweden - a town in Botkyrka, Sweden.
  • Tumba (Skopje) - an ancient Neolithic settlement in the Republic of Macedonia.
  • Tumba (Vranje) - a village in the Vranje municipality of southern Serbia.
  • Tumba Peak (Šar) - a mountain peak in south-east Kosovo.
  • Tumba Peak (Belasica) - a mountain peak where the borders of Bulgaria, Greece and the Republic of Macedonia meet
  • Tumba Peak (Cherna gora) - a mountain peak in western Bulgaria
  • Lake Tumba - a lake in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
  • Bara Tumba - an ancient living area from Neolithic times in the Republic of Macedonia.
  • Veluška Tumba - an ancient living area from Neolithic times in the Republic of Macedonia.

Music:

  • Tumba (music genre) is a native musical form that is played in Aruba and Curaçao. Jan Gerard Palm was the first composer to write Tumbas.
  • Tumba (drum) - a rare kind of thin drum.
  • The tumba is the largest drum of the conga family.
  • 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 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.
  • Tumba Sound is a band from Fredericton New Brunswick Canada formed in the summer of 2010.

People:

  • Sven Tumba, former Swedish ice hockey and golf player

Other:

  • Tumba Bruk - the printing company responsible for manufacturing of the Swedish krona banknotes, located in Tumba.
  • Another spelling for Thumba, India's first rocket launching site.
  • Tumba (drink) A Nepalese alcoholic beverage made from fermented millet or other cereals.