Libertad Mariposa Phoenix was born on July 5, 1976 in Caracas, Venezuela (July 5th is Venezuelan Independence, that is why she was named Libertad). And Joaquín Rafael Phoenix was born in Puerto Rico. Their father became the Archbishop of The Children of God in Venezuela and the entire Caribbean and Central America...

River and most of his siblings (original last name is Bottom) spent the bigger part of their upraising in Latin America, especially Venezuela as the headquarters to their parent's itinerant life throughout Central America and the Caribbean as missionaries of The Children of God. Their father has Spanish ancestry. They may all have some share of the Hispanic heritage in their lives for these factors.