What is "restrepo"

Restrepo may refer to:

• Restrepo (film) (2010), a war documentary
• Restrepo (name), and persons with the name
• Restrepo, Valle del Cauca
• Restrepo (Vegadeo), a village in Vegadeo, Spain

Restrepo is a 2010 American documentary film about the Afghanistan war, directed by American journalist Sebastian Junger and British/American photojournalist Tim Hetherington.

The film explores the year that Junger and Hetherington spent in Afghanistan on assignment for Vanity Fair, embedded with the Second Platoon, B Company, 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment, 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team of the U.S. Army in the Korangal Valley. The 2nd Platoon is depicted defending the outpost (OP) named after a platoon medic who was killed earlier in the campaign, PFC Juan Sebastián Restrepo, a Colombian-born naturalized U.S. citizen.

Restrepo is a surname and may refer to:

• José Manuel Restrepo, a Colombian political figure, botanist and historian
• Carlos Eugenio Restrepo, a Colombian politician and lawyer
• Laura Restrepo, a Colombian writer
• Luis Felipe Restrepo, Colombian American lawyer and District Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
• Ximena Restrepo, Colombian athlete
• Cataleya Restrepo, a fictional character in the 2011 film Colombiana played by Amandla Stenberg
• Fabio Restrepo, Cataleya's father in Colombiana played by Jesse Borrego
• Juan Sebastián Restrepo, PFC, a soldier from the United States Army's 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team who was killed in the War in Afghanistan; a Combat Outpost, COP Restrepo, was named for him, and a film documentary, Restrepo, was made about his unit and their time at the combat outpost in 2007 and 2008
• Ricardo Restrepo Echavarria, a Colombian philosopher involved with multiple realizability