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The Bella Coola River is a major river on the Pacific slope of the Coast Mountains in southern British Columbia. The town of Bella Coola is at its mouth on North Bentinck Arm. Bella Coola Indian Reserve No. 1 the location of the main community today of the surviving population of the Nuxalk who gathered there after depredations by smallpox and colonialization.

Bella Coola River
Mouth of Bella Coola River
Location
Country	Canada
Province	British Columbia
Physical characteristics
Source	Coast Mountains
Mouth	North Bentinck Arm
• location	Burke Channel
• coordinates	52°23′23″N 126°46′39″W[1]
• elevation	13 m (43 ft)[2]
Basin size	5,009 km2 (1,934 sq mi)[3]

Bella Coola is the only town on the mainland of the British Columbia Coast between Kitimat and Squamish to have road access to the inland side of the Coast Mountains; it is at the end of Highway 20 from Williams Lake via the Chilcotin Country. It has a vehicular ferry terminal for a special routing from Port Hardy, on northern Vancouver Island, which also now stops at smaller communities on the inlets and islands in between.

The Bella Coola River is actually only a short stretch of a much larger stream which changes names at various points during its length; it is primarily the Atnarko River, but a few miles upstream from the town of Bella Coola, at the confluence of Burnt Bridge Creek and the Talchako River with the Atnarko, the name officially changes to the Bella Coola River. This river is the northern boundary of the subgroup of the Coast Mountains known as the Pacific Ranges; the large volcanic-shield and plateau Rainbow Range is immediately north and east of the Atnarko, while beyond it and the Dean River are the Kitimat Ranges, which correspond to the Pacific Ranges in scope.

The drainage basin of the Bella Coola River and its tributaries is 5,009 square kilometres (1,934 sq mi) in size.[3]

See also

• List of rivers of British Columbia
• List of rivers of the Pacific Ranges

References

На других языках

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[de] Bella Coola River

Der Bella Coola River ist ein Hauptfluss an der Pazifikseite der Coast Mountains im südlichen British Columbia in Kanada.

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- [en] Bella Coola River

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[es] Río Bella Coola

El río Bella Coola (en inglés: Bella Coola River) es un importante río costero de Canadá de la vertiente del Pacífico, que discurre por las montañas Costeras en el sur de la provincia de la Columbia Británica. La homónima ciudad de Bella Coola (1919 hab. en 2011[1]) está en su desembocadura en el North Bentinck Arm, un estrecho entrante de más de 100 km de longitud. La Reserva Indígena N.º 1 Bella Coola es la actual ubicación de la comunidad principal de la población sobreviviente de los nuxalks que se reunieron allí después de las depredaciones por la viruela y la colonialización.

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[it] Bella Coola (fiume)

Il fiume Bella Coola (o Bellakula) è il più grande fiume sul versante del Pacifico delle Montagne Costiere nel sud della Columbia Britannica. La città di Bella Coola sorge alla sua foce.

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