The Nuxalk live in Bella Coola, some 400 kilometres northwest of Vancouver at the mouth of the Bella Coola River. Nuxalk Nation is a mixture of many villages that were distributed throughout kulhulmcilh (our land). Nuxalk Ancestral Territory covers a land base of about 18,000 square kilometers as well as ocean areas. Their Ancestral Territory includes large watersheds, rivers and deep rainforest valleys and fjords.