The town of Bella Coola is at its mouth on North Bentinck Arm.

1 is 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 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.

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

This article about a river in the Coast of British Columbia, Canada is a stub.