Question: Monte Penoso is a mountain on Maio, Cape Verde which consists of how many volcanic islands?

 At 437 m elevation, it is the island highest point.  It is situated in the eastern part of the island, 3 km southwest of Pedro Vaz and 13 km northeast of the island capital Vila do Maio.  The mountain is of volcanic origin. Monte Penoso is a mountain on the island of Maio, Cape Verde.  It is part of a protected landscape. <SEP>  Located 570 km west of the Cape Verde Peninsula in West Africa, the islands cover a combined area of slightly over 4000 km2 . Cape Verde ( ) or Cabo Verde ( , ) (Portuguese: "Cabo Verde" , ] ), officially the Republic of Cabo Verde, is an island country spanning an archipelago of 10 volcanic islands in the central Atlantic Ocean. <SEP> A Cape Verde hurricane, or Cabo Verde hurricane is an Atlantic hurricane that originates at low-latitude in the deep tropics from a tropical wave that has passed over or near the Cape Verde islands after exiting the coast of West Africa.  The average hurricane season has about two Cape Verde hurricanes, which are often the largest and most intense storms of the season due to having plenty of warm open ocean over which to develop before encountering land or other factors prompting weakening.  A good portion of Cape Verde storms are large, some setting records.  Most of the longest-lived tropical cyclones in the Atlantic basin are Cape Verde hurricanes.  While many move harmlessly out to sea, some move across the Caribbean sea and into the Gulf of Mexico, becoming damaging storms for Caribbean nations, Central America, Mexico, Bermuda, the United States, and occasionally even Canada.  Research projects since the 1970s have been launched to understand the formation of these storms. <SEP> Chã das Caldeiras (“Plain or Plateau of the Calderas”) is a small community of approximately 1,000 inhabitants within the crater of the volcanic "Pico do Fogo" on the island of Fogo, one of nine inhabited islands comprising Cape Verde and a volcanic plateau being the largest in Cape Verde, it is at the foot of the rim mountain of Bordeira.  The village consists of two parts: "Portela" is the upper part with the Tourist Information, a school, Catholic Church, Adventist Church and the Cooperative.  At an elevation of about 1,700 meters, it is the highest village in Cape Verde, higher than other settlements especially in Santo Antão, it is also considered being the highest place in the whole of West Africa including its mainland as its elevation stands higher than much of the areas in the entire West Africa with the mainland.  The lower part is "Bangaeira".  Though technically in the "Conselho de Santa Catarina" with the northern part was mapped and thought to be in "Conselho do Mosteiros", it simply belongs to Santa Catarina do Fogo with its boundary marked at Fogo, the village is functionally independent from outside governance due its isolated location.  The municipal boundary runs in the eastern part roughly east.  The main organizing body in the village is the "Associação dos Agricultores de Chã" (the agricultural cooperative), which holds considerable sway over the local economy.  Chã is the only area in Cape Verde that grows significant quantities of grapes and produces export-quality wines.