Frida Kahlo was born on July 6, 1907, in Coyoacán, which was then a small town on the outskirts of Mexico City, Mexico. She was born in the family home known as La Casa Azul, or the Blue House, though some sources mention a nearby maternal grandmother's home as the official birth registry place. Her father was a German immigrant, and her mother was of half Amerindian and half Spanish descent.