ALSA (Automóviles Luarca, S.A.) is a Spain-based international bus company operating in several countries across Europe (including Andorra, Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Switzerland and Ukraine, apart from its originating country), as well as possessing branches in China, Morocco and Chile. Nevertheless, when ALSA was incorporated in 1923, they was just a regional operator based in Luarca and Oviedo, in the Spanish northern region of Asturias.