It forms meanders in a floodplain until it meets the wide salt lake area that lies near Tolen village.

The Buldyrty (Бұлдырты) river flows parallel to the Kaldygaity roughly 45 kilometres (28 mi) to the northwest.

The river valley is wide and in its middle and lower course the Kaldygaity flows across sandy terrain.

[1] The main fish species in the Kaldygaity include pike, Eurasian carp, perch and karabalik.

[6] The reed undergrowth of the lower reaches of the Kaldygaity and neighboring Olenti provides a habitat and a mass-breeding place for the Asian locust.