diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 3aa98c9..ab507f1 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -84,3 +84,4 @@
 
 # LibreOffice temporary files
 .~lock.*
+/areas
diff --git a/dvc.lock b/dvc.lock
index 43aab92..8bfd102 100644
--- a/dvc.lock
+++ b/dvc.lock
@@ -32,3 +32,18 @@
     - path: data/areas.txt
       md5: 6102ce8099fd61bccb6eb606b66ef260
       size: 964
+  create-tree:
+    cmd:
+    - rm -rf areas
+    - cat data/areas.txt | sed -e 's|^|areas/|' | xargs mkdir -p
+    deps:
+    - path: data/areas.txt
+      md5: 6102ce8099fd61bccb6eb606b66ef260
+      size: 964
+    outs:
+    - path: areas
+      md5: d751713988987e9331980363e24189ce.dir
+      size: 0
+      nfiles: 0
+  clean-tree:
+    cmd: rm -rf areas
diff --git a/dvc.yaml b/dvc.yaml
index 8ede10d..33e82b8 100644
--- a/dvc.yaml
+++ b/dvc.yaml
@@ -18,3 +18,12 @@
     - data/area-address.tsv
     outs:
     - data/areas.txt
+  create-tree:
+    desc: Create the tree of areas
+    cmd:
+    - rm -rf areas
+    - cat data/areas.txt | sed -e 's|^|areas/|' | xargs mkdir -p
+    deps:
+    - data/areas.txt
+    outs:
+    - areas # Unfortunately, does not take into account the subdirectories
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