Tambuco is a percussion-ensemble work for six players, written by the Mexican composer Carlos Chávez in 1964.

The score is dedicated to Clare Boothe Luce, and a performance of it lasts approximately thirteen minutes.

For Chávez, Luce created a 4' x 5' mosaic titled Golden Tiger, which he hung in his Lomas de Chapultepec studio in Mexico City.

Pitched percussion is found in each of the players' groups, which also each include wood, metal, and membrane instruments.

Instead of the conventional procedures of thematic repetition and development, Tambuco unfolds in what the composer describes as "a constant process of consequent evolution.